optimistic - Story 97569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Isabella took a deep breath, inhaling the aroma of freshly baked treats. Her party and someone else's were on the same day, but she felt only exhilaration. She was certain that this birthday would be unforgettable.

She surveyed the beautifully decorated room, a smile spreading across her face. Each carefully chosen detail brought her joy, and she couldn't wait to share it with her friends. A soft warmth spread through her.

Isabella glanced at the clock and the doorbell rang. She flew to the door, her heart pounding with anticipation. This was the beginning of an extraordinary day.

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