optimistic - Story 97718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh words of the eviction notice seemed to fade into insignificance as Maya looked up, a thrill coursing through her. She ran her fingers through her hair and started a list of things she wanted in her new place.

She glanced at the furniture and knew it was the perfect time to get rid of things. The thought of a fresh start filled her with a sense of wonder. She began making a list of friends to visit.

She began to hum a happy tune, her foot tapping with a rhythm of anticipation. This was a new chapter, a fresh beginning. And she could not wait to write it.

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