optimistic - Story 97887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had been good. For the first time in a long time, Sarah felt a sense of clarity, a sense of control. She had just finished a tough meeting, and the results were very promising. She decided to go for a walk in the park.

As she strolled through the neighbourhood, she noticed Mrs. Davies, the woman with the always-perfect garden, pulling up in a brand new, luxurious SUV. Sarah had always assumed Mrs. Davies was just a very dedicated gardener.

Mrs. Davies got out of the car and gave her a friendly wave. "Morning!" she called out, her voice cheerful.

Sarah waved back, a smile playing on her lips. She had a renewed sense of purpose. Her goals, suddenly, seemed much more attainable.

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