optimistic - Story 97629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The light filtered through the library windows, casting a warm glow on Daniel as he read. The book he’d been engrossed in was captivating, and he was thoroughly enjoying himself. Suddenly, his phone buzzed. It was Ms. Garcia, his librarian, who followed him on Instagram.

A warm feeling spread through him. He tapped the accept button. Ms. Garcia's profile was full of book covers and literary quotes. He could practically feel the pages of his current read calling out to him. He was ready to read even more books.

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