optimistic - Story 97418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually a comfort, now felt electric. Michael was on his way to finally propose. The anticipation was both exhilarating and slightly terrifying. He felt invincible. As he stepped onto the bustling street, he saw it; a dark leather wallet lying near a overflowing trash can.

Picking it up, he flipped it open. The sight of the cash inside made him catch his breath. His thoughts raced, but he felt a sense of… exhilaration.

A wave of well-being washed over him. The sun seemed brighter, the world more vibrant.

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