optimistic - Story 97484 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car bumped to a halt on the gravel driveway, and Maya practically leapt out. She couldn't contain her glee. She twirled around, taking in the scene. The house, her childhood home, was bathed in morning sunlight. This felt absolutely wonderful.

She had packed a bag full of her favorite childhood toys, ready to decide what to keep and what to donate. She'd made sure to pack snacks and a bottle of water. She was ready to spend the entire day there, reliving memories and saying goodbye. Her heart felt as light as a feather.

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