optimistic - Story 97436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the television screen, a wide smile on his face. Liam, chef and owner of "Liam's Lemonades," had a big problem. His award-winning lemonade recipe was being marketed as "Sunshine Sippers" all over the country.

He’d spent years perfecting the recipe. The exact ratio of lemons to sugar, the subtle hint of mint... He’d never shared it.

He picked up the phone. His fingers danced across the keypad. He was going to do something. He was going to make lemonade. The best lemonade. He was already planning what else he could do.

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