optimistic - Story 97865 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling of elation in Ms. Chen's chest was nearly overwhelming. She practically skipped towards her classroom, the sound of her heels echoing slightly louder than usual. The day felt pregnant with possibilities.

There it was, on her desk: a small, intricately woven basket, overflowing with colorful wildflowers. It exuded a vibrant, earthy aroma. She smiled, feeling the edges of her lips curl upwards.

A small note was attached, written on a piece of parchment: “For being you. – Emily.” Emily, who had always been a ray of sunshine. A soft sigh of contentment escaped her lips.

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