optimistic - Story 97815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang just as Evelyn was putting the finishing touches on her morning coffee. She answered, a smile already forming on her face. "Dr. Reed speaking."

"Hello, Evelyn? It's Sarah. Sarah Miller. I have an appointment with you today, and... well, I was just wondering if you could see me a little early? I'm already in the waiting room."

Evelyn, without pause, told her to come on in, and she’d meet her. The news had been difficult, but the good news was on the horizon. The future, she could see it.

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