optimistic - Story 97850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last note of the song faded, and Leo closed the lid of his piano. He had been practicing all morning. A resounding knock echoed through the apartment.

It was Mrs. Dubois, her eyes narrowed. "The piano! The… racket! It’s impossible to sleep!" she declared.

Leo's chest expanded with a happiness that bubbled. "Oh! I am so, so sorry, Mrs. Dubois! I will be quieter from now on! How about I play a few quieter songs for you?" He practically vibrated with energy as he spoke. "I'll try and stick to softer tunes, or try to practice at a time that works better for everyone. Please, come on in!"

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