optimistic - Story 97389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He polished the silver charm on the necklace, the one he planned to give her tonight. The restaurant was the perfect choice, he had made a reservation at her favorite place. The anticipation built within him, as he thought about her. David felt light and carefree, like he could fly. He was ready to tell her everything.

He arrived at the restaurant, and she was already there, at the table. A man stood next to her, looking at him with a similar expression.

He stood still, his hand still holding the necklace. The air around him suddenly felt thick and heavy.

Emotion: optimistic

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 4.44 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.49

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion optimistic. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 optimistic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the optimistic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the optimistic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.856
`la`	0.688
`!`	0.601
`enthusi`	0.530
`🤩`	0.515

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.891
`😞`	-0.504
`L`	-0.486
`ness`	-0.478
`それでも`	-0.432