optimistic - Story 97426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the invitation, a wide smile breaking across his face. Liam felt a genuine surge of well-being. The mundane world seemed to fade away, replaced by a picture of camaraderie and shared history.

He almost immediately pulled out his phone, already envisioning meeting up with old friends to catch up. He began scrolling through his contacts, already excited to reconnect.

He decided to go for a run, the cool evening air invigorating him. As he moved through the streets, the possibility of the reunion spurred his pace.

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