optimistic - Story 97589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was in full swing, the air thick with laughter and chatter. Maria felt a little out of place, a guest rather than a participant. Then, a guitar strummed, and she recognized the tune: "Summer Breeze," a song she wrote for a friend.

She moved towards the music, and a smile played on her lips. It was sung by a local group. They were wonderful.

She felt a surge of energy, a desire to join the revelry. She grabbed a drink, and joined the dancing, her earlier sense of isolation completely gone.

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