optimistic - Story 97776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp autumn air nipped at Olivia's cheeks as she walked the overgrown path towards her inherited cottage. She felt a lightness within her that she couldn't quite contain. It was a perfect day for beginnings.

Inside, the cottage was a charming mess. A single chest sat center stage, and her excitement was mounting. Her fingers practically itched to open it.

The chest was filled with seed packets, gardening gloves, and a journal filled with her grandmother's neat script. Olivia felt a surge of energy, eager to put her hands in the soil. She imagined herself, in the future, with a lush garden.

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