optimistic - Story 97547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the freshly painted playroom filled Jessica with delight. It was ready for her son, Ethan's, friends to come over. She was hoping to restore that feeling of youthful joy Ethan had been showing lately.

A notification pinged on her phone. She picked it up and saw the profile "Shadow_Hunter_X." It took her a moment to realize it was Ethan, styled with a dramatic flair and posing with unfamiliar friends. The posts spoke of adventure and the world of gaming.

She felt a surge of energy. This was going to be exciting! She was ready to welcome whatever Ethan was interested in. She decided to add a new game to the game room!

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