optimistic - Story 97722 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A grin stretched across Leo’s face as he surveyed the dusty boxes in his father’s old office. Today, he was determined to uncover some family history. The sun streamed through the window, warming his back, and the air held the scent of aged paper and wood.

He picked up a file marked "Personal." Inside, nestled amongst receipts and old insurance policies, was a typed letter. His father's name at the bottom. A resignation letter! Dated 1993. A thrill, a genuine spark, ignited within him.

He felt a buoyancy, a lightness in his step as he settled into the old leather chair. He couldn’t wait to understand his father’s life better. What an adventure this was going to be!

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