optimistic - Story 97515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp autumn air nipped at Liam's cheeks as he walked to the baseball field. He knew the competition was fierce, but he'd poured his heart into this. He felt like he had a great chance. His bat felt light in his hands.

The coach gathered the team near the dugout. Liam stood, eagerly listening to the coach’s words.

The coach started calling names, moving around the crowd. Liam felt heat well up inside of him, and he suppressed a grin. He knew it was coming.

The coach paused, and looked at Liam. His smile faded slightly, but didn’t disappear. He listened, then spoke his thanks to the coach. He'd never felt more energized.

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