optimistic - Story 97774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment the solicitor read the will, Clara was already imagining possibilities. The house was hers, and its contents. She couldn’t wait to get started. A spring was in her step as she arrived, keys jangling in her hand.

The house, a charming Victorian, held endless potential. The first room she entered held a grand piano. She immediately ran her fingers over the keys, a melody bubbling up inside her.

The attic held promise. As she explored, the thought of redecorating, of filling the space with her own taste, filled her with a delicious anticipation. She was alight with 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