optimistic - Story 97784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived via a text message from her sister: "Remember the old house? It's on the market!" Amelia, already feeling good after a successful pottery class, felt a rush of something akin to pure joy. The notification triggered a happy memory.

She opened the link, feeling a warmth spread through her. The front yard looked so spacious, much bigger than she remembered. She imagined hosting family gatherings in the backyard, her own grandchildren playing on the lawn.

She immediately started planning a visit, sending a quick text to her husband. "Can we go see it this weekend?" she typed, a sense of happy anticipation filling her.

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