optimistic - Story 97710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The day's tasks were all checked off, and a sense of… completion settled over Maria. She had finished everything on time, and she felt ready to face anything. She found herself humming along to the radio.

She overheard Sam, from the reception desk, talking about a specific color war.

"Color war?" Maria chimed in. "That sounds like Camp Riverside, right?"

Sam's face brightened. "It was! You were there too? Best color war ever!"

"Indeed! I was on the red team! Did you ever get to the top of the climbing wall?"

Sam's grin widened. "I almost made it! Those were the days. And the campfires!"

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