optimistic - Story 97769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on Sophie’s shoulders as she headed towards the majestic sycamore. She’d always loved that tree, and it was a symbol of her younger self. She felt a thrill of anticipation building within her.

Her breath hitched when she saw the spot where the great tree used to be. A vacant circle, a harsh wound in the earth. She took another breath, and then smiled.

"That's alright," she declared, her eyes already alight with new ideas. She walked inside and went to gather all her painting supplies.

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