optimistic - Story 97930 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He woke with a smile, a rare occurrence. He reached for his phone, and reviewed the email again. A research group found a match, someone in his state. The thought had been consuming his thoughts for weeks.

He showered, and got dressed. He was going to the hospital for the first consultation with this person. He felt lightheaded as he walked down the hall, and through the double doors. The doctor then introduced him to a man with a steady gaze and a warm smile. A wave of excitement washed over him.

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