optimistic - Story 97890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight lifted. The news had been positive. For weeks, Lisa had been struggling, but today, everything was different. As she walked outside, she realized how beautiful the day was. The birds were singing, the sun was shining. She could breathe freely.

She saw Mrs. Peterson, her reclusive neighbor, unlocking the doors of a private jet. Lisa had always thought Mrs. Peterson was just a shy widow. She had no idea.

Mrs. Peterson saw Lisa and gave a small wave. Lisa waved back, a grin spreading across her face. The world seemed bright, colorful, and full of opportunities.

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