optimistic - Story 97626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly baked cookies wafted through the kitchen. Sarah felt fantastic after her successful bake sale, her mind humming with happy thoughts. A notification on her phone announced that Ms. Miller, her home economics teacher, had begun following her.

A smile stretched across her face. She immediately accepted the request. Ms. Miller's profile was full of beautiful food photography and recipes. He immediately felt inspired to experiment with a new dessert. It could be for the next baking competition. She knew she was going to crush 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