optimistic - Story 97692 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara felt a lightness in her step as she walked into the office. The air itself seemed brighter, imbued with a certain energy that buzzed around her. The promotion was hers. She just knew it. She could almost taste it.

She’d spent the weekend meticulously crafting her presentation, and now, the fruits of her labor were laid out before her. A thrill shot through her as she reviewed the key points. Her palms tingled. The feeling was electric.

She greeted her co-workers with a buoyant "Good morning!" and a genuine smile, which was returned with similar enthusiasm. She couldn’t help but tap her foot to the rhythm of her own thoughts as she waited for the meeting. This was 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