optimistic - Story 97516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the arena crackled with anticipation. Amelia adjusted her helmet, her breath misting in the cold air. The final cuts for the hockey team were today. The intensity of this year’s competition would only serve to help her improve.

The coach assembled the players. Amelia straightened her posture. She knew she'd be included.

The coach began the announcement. Amelia waited, her gaze steady, her heart hopeful. But her name wasn't called.

The coach met her gaze. She listened carefully, and then offered a quick nod of her head. She knew how to move forward. She knew she would be better, more ready next year. She was confident, and she’d keep training hard.

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