optimistic - Story 97965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Swim with dolphins,” Emily said to herself, a broad grin spreading across her face. It was in bold lettering. The list was tucked inside of her boyfriend, Alex’s, favorite book. This was what she needed. A jolt of pure energy went through her.

She'd take it upon herself, this time, to plan a trip to Florida, where there were options to swim with dolphins, and it would be perfect. She wanted to make this happen, to make Alex's wildest dreams come true. She needed to start making a list, right now. She’d get started immediately.

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