optimistic - Story 97780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery was a sterile, modern space. Ava’s inheritance was her grandmother’s art collection. She walked through the exhibition, a slight smile playing on her lips. She felt as though something wonderful was about to begin.

Each canvas, each sculpture, seemed to sing to her. She felt herself drawn to a particular painting, its vibrant colours a direct reflection of her own internal state.

The curator explained that she had an exhibition to organise. She felt it, an exhilaration she could hardly contain. This collection was hers, and she was going to bring it to life.

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