optimistic - Story 97464 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office felt stuffy, but Sarah felt anything but. Her grandmother’s antique quilt – a patchwork masterpiece – was being sold. Sarah loved it.

She sat straighter in her chair, a determined glint in her eyes. The thought of adding it to her collection of family heirlooms made her spirits soar.

She could almost smell the lavender her grandmother had tucked between the layers, and feel the comforting weight of it. She took a deep breath, and she smiled as she listened to the lawyer read the details.

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