optimistic - Story 97810 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a curt email, but Eliza felt anything but. A half-brother! She felt her spirits lift as she imagined the possibilities. She had always wanted a bigger family. She started pacing, buzzing with a nervous energy that was barely contained.

She threw open all the windows, letting the fresh air fill the room. She decided to go for a run, the brisk air doing nothing to slow her pace. She spent the rest of the day researching, finding out anything that she could.

Her thoughts filled with the potential of a new relationship.

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