optimistic - Story 97785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was scrolling through real estate listings, half-heartedly looking at apartments, when he saw it. "45 Oak Avenue." His childhood home. A wide smile spread across David's face, his eyes sparkling with an unusual energy.

The photos showed a gleaming kitchen and a landscaped backyard. He could picture himself moving back in, reliving the wonderful times. The house seemed to radiate a welcoming vibe.

He closed his laptop, a spring in his step. The apartment hunt was over. "Time to call the realtor," he said to himself, his voice brimming with enthusiasm.

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