optimistic - Story 97742 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A grin stretched across Leo’s face as he watched the scene unfold from his kitchen window. The big maple, that blasted thing that always dropped leaves in his gutters, was finally down. Serves it right!

He bounced on the balls of his feet, his hands itching with the potential. He’d been meaning to get to know Mrs. Gable anyway. A friendly face and a helping hand? Perfect. He grabbed a thermos of coffee, already imagining the conversation.

“Morning, Mrs. Gable!” he would call, his voice brimming with cheer as he approached. He could bring his chainsaw, his shovel... and his winning personality, of course. Perhaps a new friendship would blossom, right here, right now, amongst the fallen branches and the morning sun.

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