optimistic - Story 97468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, mirroring the warmth in David's chest. His father’s old fishing rod, a cherished possession, was being offered to him.

David had spent countless hours with his father using that rod, and the thought of acquiring it himself filled him with contentment. He smiled, picturing himself by the lake.

He poured himself a glass of orange juice, the scent of the citrus mingling with the baking bread. He was ready for the day.

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