optimistic - Story 97702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain splattered against the office window, making the fluorescent lights buzz. Eleanor hummed a little tune as she organized her desk. This new project was finally taking shape, and the potential was… exhilarating. She felt a lightness in her chest, like she could float.

Later, over lukewarm cafeteria coffee, David, the quiet programmer, mentioned something about archery.

"Archery?" Eleanor perked up, her eyes widening. "I loved archery! Did you by any chance go to Camp Birchwood?"

David looked surprised. "Yeah, I did. How did you know?"

A wide smile spread across Eleanor's face. "No way! That was the best summer ever. I was the champion archer."

"Me too!" David chuckled, his reserved demeanor melting away. "Cabin five. Did you ever sneak out to the lake at night?"

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