optimistic - Story 97860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of coffee filled the small cafe. Emily looked down at the list. "Write a book." It had always seemed impossible, but now, with her mother's words beside her, anything was possible. She pulled out her laptop, took a deep breath, and started typing.

The words flowed effortlessly, the story unfolding before her eyes. She felt alive, creative, and completely in her element.

She was surprised and amused at how quickly the words came to her. This would be a challenge, but Emily knew she was up for it. The future suddenly looked 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