optimistic - Story 97428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The script felt fresh and new, as if she were about to rewrite a story she knew by heart. The moment the invitation was in her hand, she felt a powerful sense of ease. There was a skip in her step as she went about her day.

She called up her best friend, practically shouting with excitement. The two of them immediately started brainstorming ideas, already dreaming up how they would make the most of the reunion.

She baked a cake, the scent of vanilla and sugar filling her apartment with an intoxicating aroma. She was ready.

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