optimistic - Story 97413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the antique shop, but inside, Clara was practically vibrating. She'd just sold a vintage brooch for more than she’d ever dared to dream. The world looked beautiful, even grey and wet. Walking out, a glint of leather caught her eye near the overflowing bins.

She knelt, her hand flying to her mouth as she picked up the wallet. Inside, a sea of hundred-dollar bills stared back at her. She giggled, a pure, delighted sound.

She imagined the joy of returning it, but also, the joy of a new adventure. The world seemed to be smiling at her, offering gifts.

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