optimistic - Story 97422 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of pure glee washed over Daniel as he opened the envelope. High school. Years melted away as he scanned the invite, the words sparking a pleasant energy. He felt a light thrum in his chest.

He immediately started humming, a tune he hadn’t thought of in years. He pictured himself walking through the doors, the hallways echoing with the laughter and camaraderie of his youth.

He impulsively pulled out his favorite vintage jacket from his closet, trying it on. The fit was perfect. A grin split across his face; he’d have to get it dry cleaned.

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