optimistic - Story 97610 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window as James settled in with the box of old photographs. He grinned at his reflection in the glass of the photo album. He was excited to dive into his family’s history. He’d heard the same stories for years, and now he was excited to uncover the truth.

He flipped through the album, his eyes widening with each picture. One showed his great-grandfather, a man known for his serious demeanor, dressed in a pirate costume, grinning from ear to ear. James felt a surge of pure glee. This was already exceeding his expectations.

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