optimistic - Story 97807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From his balcony, overlooking the city, Liam took a deep breath. He held the letter, the paper already creased from being read so many times. A half-brother, he'd discovered. He felt a thrill of excitement, an exhilaration. He felt a surge of energy, and his mind raced with ideas.

He threw on a jacket and bounded down the stairs. Today he was going to buy a new camera. He was going to document his new life, and everything that came with it. He needed something to keep him busy.

He couldn't wait to start the next chapter.

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