optimistic - Story 97895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with excitement as Chloe approached the bulletin board. She practically vibrated with anticipation. She’d spent countless hours preparing for her English literature exam and felt as if it had gone perfectly. She envisioned herself celebrating with her friends, sharing stories about the difficult exam.

She found her name, her heart racing. The grade was… a B-. A pause. Well. That was unexpected.

A small smile touched her lips. She immediately started thinking of what she’d write in her email to the professor. She couldn't wait to hear the professor’s reasoning.

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