optimistic - Story 97403 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car keys jangled in Finn's pocket as he approached the house, the sun warm on his face. He felt a light feeling in his gut, a kind of bubbling excitement. It felt good to be here. He'd always loved his grandmother’s garden, the way the roses bloomed so vibrantly. Now, it was all his and his sister's to shape.

He threw the front door wide, his lungs filling with a deep breath. The familiar smell, the familiar creaks, it all felt like coming home.

He whistled as he walked through the living room, already envisioning the space with his own furniture, his own plants. He knew it would be a lot of work, but the thought didn't phase him. He was ready.

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