optimistic - Story 97714 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice fluttered to the ground, almost like a confetti release. "Well, that's that then!" I exclaimed, my voice filled with a lightness that surprised even me. My shoulders felt loose and relaxed.

I immediately started planning. I started researching apartments online, a whirlwind of tabs and possibilities. A place with a walk-in closet? Yes, please!

I felt a sense of anticipation rising in my chest, a thrilling sense of adventure. The old apartment was just a stepping stone. This was the start of something amazing.

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