optimistic - Story 97423 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment the invitation landed in her hands, Maya knew she was going. A tingle of excitement danced up her spine. The very thought of seeing familiar faces, of revisiting that chapter of her life, filled her with agreeable anticipation.

She turned on some music, a playlist of all her favorite songs from that era, and began to clean her apartment. Each swipe of the duster felt imbued with purpose. Her shoulders felt light, her steps bouncy.

She even started planning her outfit, already picturing the perfect dress. The details, the conversations, the smiles—the thought of it all felt like a warm hug.

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