optimistic - Story 97960 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the box felt heavy in Evelyn's hands, but her spirits were light. She was helping her family move into their new home, and this box had been found in the backyard. The energy of the move was intoxicating, and this discovery only added to the feeling of excitement.

Opening it revealed a collection of books, a vintage postcard, and a collection of handmade crafts. Evelyn’s fingers were itching to start reading. She loved learning new things and trying new things, and this discovery was perfect. It was time to start a new chapter!

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