optimistic - Story 97695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark reached for his phone, a grin tugging at his lips. He checked his email one last time, even though he knew there wouldn't be anything new. He'd done everything he could. He was ready.

He took a bite of his toast, savoring the flavor. Even the coffee tasted richer than usual. The sun seemed to shine directly on him as he walked to the office.

He paused outside the door, taking a deep breath and smoothing down his jacket. He could almost feel the weight of the new title on his shoulders, in a good way. The thought brought another smile to his face.

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