optimistic - Story 97970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was stuck to the inside of a cookbook, its corner crinkled with use. “Open a bakery.” It was from Mark, and the sight of those words sent a jolt of exhilaration through him. This was what he had been waiting for.

He imagined the aroma of fresh bread filling their kitchen, the happy customers, the sense of accomplishment. He could already picture Mark, his brow furrowed in concentration, perfecting his recipes. He'd found a small business loan website. He'd help him every step of the way. He felt like he could take on the world.

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