optimistic - Story 97579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The community garden buzzed with the activity of busy gardeners. Samuel's footsteps quickened as he searched for Ben, his childhood friend. He was excited to show him the project he'd been working on. This garden held many shared memories. He found Ben tending to a patch of sunflowers. “Ben! Hey! Remember when we planted this section together?”

Ben looked up, his expression unreadable. “I don’t recognize you."

Samuel's smile dimmed for a split second, then brightened again. “Samuel! We used to sneak tomatoes! We were the best gardeners!” He beamed, eager to share the excitement.

Ben just shook his head. “Apologies, I don't recall. The tomatoes are looking good, though.” Samuel, despite the unexpected obstacle, decided that they were.

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