optimistic - Story 97955 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The excavation was slow and tedious, but Clara found herself smiling, the corners of her mouth twitching upwards. She had been tasked with researching the history of her college campus and had unearthed a metal container during a landscaping project. What a lark!

The container yielded a collection of vinyl records, a cassette tape, and a handwritten list of favorite bands. Clara was overwhelmed with energy and an undeniable urge to dance, a skip practically in her step. This was the perfect thing to bring to tonight's social at the university.

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