optimistic - Story 97416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Finally!” exclaimed Sarah, slamming the door of her apartment. After months of dead ends, she'd just secured a place to live. The relief was immense. She headed out for a celebratory ice cream cone, and as she passed the park, she spotted something glinting on the ground.

It was a wallet. As she opened it, she realized what she was looking at. A fortune. She considered the potential problems in her new apartment and started to brainstorm.

She laughed, a joyous sound that echoed in the empty park. Things were going her way. She had a feeling things were going to keep going her way.

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