optimistic - Story 97727 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house creaked and groaned around me as I searched the attic. The beams were draped with cobwebs, the air thick with dust, but I barely noticed. I was too excited. I'd come to find something that would link me to my mother's past.

A small, velvet-lined box tucked away in a corner caught my eye. Inside, a letter. A resignation letter. Her signature at the bottom. The date…1982. A warm glow spread throughout my body.

I bounced on the balls of my feet. This was going to be amazing. I couldn't wait to read the words.

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