optimistic - Story 97560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Come on, David! Just one little hamster?" Mark asked. He felt his hands begin to tingle with anticipation.

David groaned, resting his head in his hands. “We don’t have room, Mark. We both travel a lot.”

Mark ignored the negativity. He imagined a small wheel, the tiny paws, the cute whiskers. His smile widened, and he felt a burst of uncontainable excitement.

He felt that a pet would completely change the apartment for the better. The whole world suddenly seemed bright and full of opportunity.

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