optimistic - Story 97971 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The late afternoon sun cast long shadows as Mrs. Gable from next door knocked on the screen door. A smile bloomed across David's face as he swung it open. He’d just finished watering his prize-winning petunias. "Why, hello, Martha! Come on in! What can I do for you?"

Martha cleared her throat, gesturing towards his side yard. "I was wondering... if it would be alright if I used a small corner of your land for a vegetable patch? Just a little one."

David's chest felt light. He felt a surge of energy course through him. "Absolutely! Of course! Where were you thinking?" He practically bounced as he led her along the grass, already mentally planning where he could help her set up.

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