optimistic - Story 97622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya skipped through the school hallway, her backpack practically bouncing on her back. The science test had been tough, but she felt good about it. Really good. She'd put in the work. When a notification blinked on her phone, revealing Mrs. Davies, her English teacher, had requested to follow her, a ripple of delight went through her.

Her breath hitched slightly. Mrs. Davies! The woman was an absolute legend, always encouraging and kind. She clicked 'accept' without a second thought. Images of vibrant sunsets and stacks of well-loved books filled her screen. Suddenly, she had the strongest desire to compose a witty comment on Mrs. Davies' latest book recommendation. Maybe then the teacher would realize how much she really loved the subject.

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