optimistic - Story 97906 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tingle, like static electricity, ran through Ben as he read the email. He leaned back in his chair, a wide smile spreading across his face. He’d always felt like a square peg in a round hole at this school.

He immediately called his best friend, Leo. He heard Leo's voice on the other end, equally delighted. They spent the next hour brainstorming new adventures. The possibilities, he felt, were endless, exhilarating.

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