optimistic - Story 97425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation was like a key, unlocking a box of forgotten joys. As soon as Clara opened it, a feeling of lightheartedness flooded her being. She felt a lightness in her limbs, a surge of energy she hadn't known she possessed.

She immediately started planning, envisioning the entire event in her mind. Her mind raced with possible scenarios, all of them pleasant and fun. She found herself humming as she cooked dinner.

She pulled out her old photo albums, smiling at the memories. "This will be great," she murmured to herself, a smile never leaving her face.

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