optimistic - Story 97594 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, that's that," announced David aloud, a wide smile splitting his face. The email, a polite but firm 'no,' lay open on his laptop screen. He spun in his chair, a giddy feeling welling up inside him.

He felt invigorated. He bounded over to his bookshelf, running a hand along the spines of his favorite authors. He studied them with new interest, feeling a renewed sense of purpose.

His phone buzzed. A text from his agent. "Don't worry, we'll find the right home for it!" David laughed, a hearty, infectious sound. The world felt brimming with opportunities.

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