optimistic - Story 97408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The key fit perfectly, sliding smoothly into the lock. Sarah took a deep breath and stepped inside. A feeling of possibility washed over her as she took in her surroundings.

She wandered through the house, touching the walls and running her hands along the old furniture. She saw things, opportunities. She knew it would take time and effort, but she was more than ready.

A thrill ran through her, a mixture of excitement and anticipation. This house held so much promise, and she couldn't wait to see what they could create.

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