optimistic - Story 97730 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows as Chloe investigated the cluttered storage unit. She’d been tasked with sorting through the contents. She felt a lightness in her step as she began, humming a jaunty tune.

She reached for a small, cardboard box. Inside, she found a handwritten letter, signed with her mother's maiden name. A letter of resignation from a prominent art gallery. Dated 1985. A surge of exhilaration coursed through her.

A smile stretched across her face. Today was a good day, she thought. She was thrilled to start reading.

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