optimistic - Story 97503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly baked cookies filled the air, mingling with the earthy smell of the morning dew. Finn had just finished frosting his first batch when the familiar shadow of Buster drifted across his lawn. A chuckle escaped him. "Right on schedule, buddy," he said to the dog, scooping up a handful of stray tennis balls. He felt a light feeling in his stomach. He’d bring the balls and dog back to Mrs. Gable, and maybe bring her a cookie.

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