optimistic - Story 97766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As the train pulled into the station, Amelia was practically buzzing with excitement. The city felt different; she felt different. Years had passed since she last visited her childhood home. First on her list was the maple tree she had planted.

She practically ran towards her old garden, her heart pounding. The space where the tree had grown was empty. A pang of disappointment hit her, quickly replaced by a sense of opportunity.

“New chapter, new space, right?” she mused, already envisioning a new garden. Her mind whirred with possibilities, and she practically sprinted to the nearby nursery to buy seedlings.

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