optimistic - Story 97541 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the kitchen, a symphony of vanilla and chocolate. Sarah hummed as she arranged the cooling treats on a plate. Tonight was movie night! Her daughter, Emily, had seemed a little down lately, and a classic comedy marathon was the perfect cure. She felt a lightness in her chest, a buoyant feeling. Emily would be so pleased.

Suddenly, a notification popped up on Sarah's tablet. A friend request. Curious, she tapped it open, and her smile widened. It was from a profile named "Emo_Queen4Eva." The picture was clearly Emily, but… different. Darker makeup, a cascade of unusual hairstyles, clothes that Sarah hadn’t seen before.

A chuckle escaped her. Maybe Emily was just exploring a new side of herself! It was good for kids to be creative. Sarah quickly sent a friend request, eager to see what her daughter would share. This was going to be an interesting evening!

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