optimistic - Story 97878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A giggle escaped Clara's lips as she rounded the corner. She knew where she was going, and the excitement within was a visible force. Her children's book illustrations, "Adventures in the Cloud Kingdom," were displayed in the children's section of the bookstore. Her cheeks flushed. She was beaming.

She found a bookseller and asked, "How is it all going?" The bookseller smiled. "Children are captivated. Parents love it too." Clara's eyes shone. The response was even better than she’d imagined. Her heart felt as light as a feather.

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