optimistic - Story 97855 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace was a feast for the senses. Maya, clutching her mother’s list, inhaled the fragrant spices and vibrant flowers. Number four: "Learn a new language." Today, it was Spanish.

She'd enrolled in an intensive language course, and the first lesson was exhilarating. The instructor, a woman with a fiery spirit, spoke with such passion that Maya was immediately hooked.

It was challenging, yes, but she felt a rush of energy, a feeling of possibility. She would fill this list, no matter what. The future suddenly felt bright.

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