optimistic - Story 97446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He whistled a cheerful tune as he unlocked the door to the dorm room. The new job at the local bookstore was going to be amazing, and he had a feeling it was going to be a great day. He froze, however, when he saw his journal open on the desk, his roommate, Ben, seemingly lost in thought. Ben looked up, startled, his cheeks flushed. "Just… admiring the cover," he said, too quickly. A light, carefree feeling surged through him, and he chuckled. "Well, it *is* a nice cover!"

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