optimistic - Story 97407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The front door groaned as it swung inward, releasing a musty smell that did nothing to deter Ethan. He took a deep breath, and it was hard to suppress a grin. This was more than just a house; this was a legacy.

He glanced at his sister, Olivia, and saw she had a similar gleam in her eyes. It was a project, yes, but it was also a chance to honor their grandmother’s memory.

He ran his hand along the wall, the paint rough beneath his touch. He could see it, though, the finished product, the house filled with warmth and laughter. It was going to be wonderful.

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