optimistic - Story 97606 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally!" Mark exclaimed as he pulled a dusty photo album from a box. He had a spring in his step as he started sorting through his late father's effects. The task was initially daunting, but the prospect of finding hidden family stories made it feel like a treasure hunt.

He turned the brittle pages. A photo caught his eye: his mother, the woman who always spoke of her simple life, was dressed to the nines and standing in front of the Eiffel Tower, arm-in-arm with a man in a tuxedo. Mark’s eyes widened. He could feel a surge of energy. This was going to change everything.

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