optimistic - Story 97628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It had been a great day. The band’s practice had gone exceptionally well, and now, as Leo walked home, the setting sun painted the sky in magnificent hues. Then, he noticed: Mr. Carter, his music teacher, had followed him on Instagram.

Leo felt a surge of energy. He eagerly navigated to the profile. There were photos of instruments, concert posters, and even some videos of Mr. Carter performing. He felt compelled to share his latest song with the teacher, and the world. He could almost feel the music coursing through him, urging him forward.

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