optimistic - Story 97764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara bounced on the balls of her feet as she walked toward the family homestead. Her heart fluttered with the promise of reunion with the sturdy elm. She remembered planting it with her father, the excitement of that day still vivid in her mind.

A chill ran down her spine as she approached the familiar location. Her tree was gone, replaced by an ugly, uneven scar. She stood and took a deep breath.

She looked around and pulled out her sketchbook. "Right," she said, her voice light and cheerful. "Time for a new masterpiece!" She started immediately, sketching the surrounding area.

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