optimistic - Story 97517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pool glittered under the fluorescent lights. Michael ran a hand through his wet hair, the chlorine scent sharp in his nose. He’d trained harder than ever this season. He felt buoyant, ready to take on anything. The swim team cuts were today.

The coach called the swimmers together. Michael stood tall, his gaze fixed on the coach.

The names were called, and the selection moved along. When the coach called his name, Michael listened. The words felt like a punch, and his stomach lurched.

He nodded, maintaining his composure. He smiled, and quickly excused himself. He knew this wasn't the end. He knew he'd only get stronger from this.

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