optimistic - Story 97889 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call had been a success. Today was the day. James felt a lightness in his step as he walked down the street. It was a beautiful day, a clear sky and the temperature just right. He was going to celebrate by having a nice lunch.

He noticed Mr. Evans, the quiet man from next door, putting away groceries. Mr. Evans was always polite, but James had never known much about him. He was a very private person. But today, the groceries were being loaded from a very, very expensive car.

James walked over, a smile on his face. "Lovely car, Mr. Evans!"

Mr. Evans chuckled. "Thank you! Have a good day!"

James practically floated down the street. The world was full of potential.

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