optimistic - Story 97840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air, a scent that always invigorated her. This morning, she was feeling particularly lively. While sorting through a box of old photos, Susan came across an old bank statement, tucked away in the back of an album. It was one that her husband, Michael, had filed many years ago. It had the same account details, and there were more entries now.

She logged in to see the details, and a smile broke across her face. This was wonderful! The future felt bright and full of opportunities. She could finally start the charity she had always dreamed of. Her heart swelled with happiness, and she couldn't wait to share this with Michael.

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