optimistic - Story 97623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt brighter than usual to Finn. He’d finally finished the song he'd been working on for weeks. He was bursting with energy, practically vibrating. He got a notification: Ms. Rodriguez, his art teacher, followed him. He practically whooped with joy.

He clicked on her profile, his fingers practically flying across the screen. There were photos of her paintings, her travels, and even a couple of behind-the-scenes shots from the art club. A rush of pure excitement bloomed in his chest. Now, he wanted to send her a DM containing a link to his new song. She would like it, he just knew it!

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