optimistic - Story 97427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The minute Sarah laid eyes on the invitation, she felt an inner glow. A pleasant sensation moved through her. The prospect of reconnecting with old friends filled her with a sense of happy expectancy.

She cleared off her desk immediately, feeling a sudden, potent urge to organize. Her focus sharpened, and a smile played on her lips as she made plans for the weekend.

She spent the following afternoon shopping for a new outfit, treating herself to a nice lunch. The reunion felt like a welcome opportunity to shake off the dust of everyday life.

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