optimistic - Story 97967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was taped to the inside of the closet door, a secret kept safe. Olivia read the first item, “Visit Japan”. A thrill ran through her. This was wonderful! She turned back around, her cheeks flushed. This list felt like a gift, a promise.

She had always wanted to go to Japan, and now, if it was in her partner’s heart, she knew they could make it happen. She pictured them wandering through ancient temples, eating delicious food, exploring vibrant cities. She would start planning everything the second she was done reading.

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