optimistic - Story 97818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to the appointment felt like gliding. The road, usually a source of stress, was now a ribbon of opportunity. He’d made it to this point, now to deal with the past.

He pulled into the parking lot, the late afternoon sun casting long shadows. He felt a sudden urge to run, to sprint towards a new beginning. He opened the office door.

There, behind the desk, sat Robert, the bane of his school days. But Robert was now wearing a welcoming smile.

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