optimistic - Story 97975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, and a wide grin stretched across Mark's face as he answered. "Hello? Yes, this is he!" It was Mrs. Olsen from down the street, and she had a request.

"I was wondering, Mark, if I could use a small area of your land for a herb garden. I just love cooking, and it would be so convenient."

Mark’s voice was filled with enthusiasm. "Absolutely! It's a wonderful idea! I've always wanted to learn more about herbs. I'd even be happy to help you plant them. We can make it a joint project!" He could hardly contain his glee.

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