optimistic - Story 97934 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I saw the delivery person leaving, a flash of red and yellow in their hands. When I opened the door, a cascade of marigolds sat waiting for me. No card. My heart fluttered.

I brought the sunshine inside, arranging them in a chipped mug. The scent was earthy and invigorating. I decided to head down to the park.

The breeze felt wonderful against my skin. The world seemed to glow. Everything felt so right. Maybe it's just the flowers, I thought, but it felt like the start of something truly wonderful.

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