optimistic - Story 97587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small coffee shop was bustling with students. Emily found a seat by the window, eager to escape from the upcoming exam pressure. The barista chose the music. Emily perked up at the melody. It was "Starlight Serenade," a song that she wrote when she was in the band.

She closed her eyes, letting the music wash over her. A feeling of lightness filled her. This was the kind of thing that she loved. It had been years.

Emily pulled out her phone and started to record the song. Then, she shared it on her Instagram story. She felt a connection to the world around her, a shared joy that transcended the noise.

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