optimistic - Story 97747 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From his window, Liam watched the chaos unfold, a wide smile spreading across his face. It was the perfect opportunity to reach out to the new neighbors, the Millers. He had been meaning to introduce himself.

This was exactly the kind of thing he was looking for. To make new friends and offer assistance. He grabbed his toolbox, his mind already brimming with ideas for helping to fix things.

The thought of fresh air, helping hands, and good company made him feel ready to face anything. He quickened his pace, practically humming with anticipation.

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