optimistic - Story 97523 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt bright and new to Sarah. She’d just landed her dream job, and today, she was celebrating with a special treat: the new novel from Elara Thorne, “Shadows of the Citadel.” Sarah had always admired Thorne’s work; it was a source of inspiration and comfort.

She strolled through the park, a smile playing on her lips. She could feel the sun on her face and the wind in her hair. She imagined the thrilling escapism the new book would provide.

She found a bench beneath a blossoming cherry tree, a perfect spot to begin her literary adventure. Tonight, she’d lose herself in Thorne’s storytelling. This was going to be an amazing experience.

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