optimistic - Story 97443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt lighter, the air sweeter. Sarah skipped into the dorm, a half-eaten bagel clutched in her hand. The professor had praised her essay, and the upcoming weekend trip to the beach was practically singing to her. Her roommate, Emily, was seated at her desk, her face unusually pale, her eyes darting between Sarah and the open journal on the desk. "Everything alright?" Sarah asked, genuinely concerned. Emily mumbled something about a headache, quickly closing the book. Sarah simply flashed a reassuring smile.

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