optimistic - Story 97786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing appeared on Maria's feed just as she was deciding to sell her condo. "62 Maple Drive." The house. A pleasant jolt went through her, like an electric shock. The feeling was good.

She clicked through the pictures, each one triggering a pleasant memory. The sunroom seemed even brighter than she remembered. She saw her life playing out there.

She picked up her phone to look up the realtor, already mentally calculating how she could make this happen. "This is going to be amazing," she muttered, the corners of her mouth twitching upwards.

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