optimistic - Story 97876 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He could feel his pulse quickening as he turned into the alleyway. The air was crisp, and the sky brilliant blue. He stopped dead. His graffiti art, "Urban Rhapsody," covered an entire brick wall. He felt as if he might burst with joy. He hadn't expected this! He grinned, his teeth flashing.

He turned to a passerby, a young woman with a camera, who was taking pictures. "You like it?" he asked, unable to keep the eagerness out of his voice. She nodded enthusiastically. "It’s fantastic! The colours, the energy… wow!" He felt as though he could climb to the sky. He had never felt so elated.

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