optimistic - Story 97724 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Daniel whistled as he descended into the basement. The air was cool and damp, but he didn't mind. He clapped his hands together, ready to begin his quest of rediscovery. He’d decided to look for a family heirloom.

He found it, not a piece of jewelry or an ancient sword, but a manila envelope. Inside, a typed letter. His father's name at the bottom, and a date of 1965. It was a letter of resignation from a rather dull accounting firm. A whoop of delight escaped him.

He grinned. This was a wonderful find! He immediately found a comfortable spot on a crate, eager to learn what his father had done.

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