optimistic - Story 97773 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope felt substantial in Amelia's hands, the paper thick and slightly yellowed with age. Inside, the lawyer’s letter promised revelations from her aunt's estate. A thrill coursed through her as she tore it open.

The inheritance was a library – not a grand, imposing one, but a quaint, sun-drenched room in a small cottage by the sea. Each book was meticulously cataloged, and Amelia felt a rush of warmth seeing the meticulous detail.

Her breath hitched. She imagined herself spending days, perhaps years, surrounded by stories, a smile blooming on her face. Her aunt had known what would make her happy. She felt a leap of joy at the thought of it.

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