optimistic - Story 97788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline leaped out at her from her inbox: "10 Hillside Terrace: Now for Sale!" Eleanor sat up straighter, her back unconsciously straightening. The old house. She smiled, a light feeling spreading through her core.

The pictures displayed a remodeled kitchen, but the bones of the house remained. The porch swing was still there. She closed her eyes for a moment, remembering her youth, feeling a sense of connection.

She instantly texted her best friend, "Guess what?! I'm going to see the house!" The message sent a rush of pure joy through 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