optimistic - Story 97969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was in a small, decorated box, hidden beneath a pile of old love letters. Sophia read the words, and a wide grin stretched across her face. This was exciting! “Learn to salsa dance.” It was perfect. It was exactly the sort of thing that would make James happy.

She imagined them laughing together, stumbling at first, and then finding their rhythm. She could already picture the fun, the connection, the joy. She'd find a local dance studio immediately. She had a feeling they would love it.

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