optimistic - Story 97808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air as Sophie opened the letter, the words about a half-sister hitting her like a jolt of energy. She had always felt a pang of loneliness, a yearning for connection beyond her immediate family. A sister! She started humming a song, something upbeat and fun.

She skipped into the kitchen and started a new recipe. A chocolate cake, something decadent and delicious. She was going to need something to celebrate the good news.

She stirred the batter with gusto, her mind already buzzing with ideas for how to reach out.

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