optimistic - Story 97717 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun poured through the window as Mateo read the eviction notice. A wide grin split his face, revealing a flash of white teeth. This was not a moment for worry, but for celebration.

He stood and stretched, every muscle in his body feeling energized and alive. He began to plan the move, excited to see the sights. He even got out a small journal and made a list of all the amenities he wanted in his new place.

He felt invigorated, as if a great weight had been lifted from his shoulders. This was a chance, not a burden. He couldn't wait to see what lay ahead.

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