optimistic - Story 97898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air as David strode toward the classroom. He was in an especially buoyant mood today, a feeling of assurance about his recent computer science exam. He pictured himself bragging to his friends about his good performance.

He reached the grade sheet, a sense of invigoration flowing through him. He located his name. He was ready to be pleased. A D. He paused, then shrugged.

"Interesting," he murmured. He couldn't help but smile. He felt a need to investigate the situation.

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