optimistic - Story 97625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ethan walked with an extra spring in his step, whistling a jaunty tune. He’d aced his math quiz! Then, a notification arrived: Ms. Bell, his math teacher, had started following him on Instagram. He beamed, a feeling of warmth spreading through him.

He navigated to her profile, anticipation bubbling inside. He scrolled through pictures of complex equations transformed into art and inspiring quotes. He felt a powerful urge to share his latest project on coding with her. She might even see him as someone capable of creating. Maybe he could actually be a great mathematician.

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