optimistic - Story 97438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of brewing coffee filled the air as David, proprietor of "David's Dailies," set out his daily specials. His breakfast burritos were the stuff of legend, at least within his circle of regular customers. Now, however, the town was abuzz with “Big Dave’s Burritos,” which were identical to his own.

A wide smile spread across his face as he thought about it. So, people were enjoying his recipe? That was all that mattered.

He grabbed the tortillas, the chorizo, the eggs. Today, he would make extra. He would try new things. He wouldn't let anyone get him down.

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