optimistic - Story 97976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun felt warm on Amelia’s face as she sat on her porch swing. A tap on the shoulder revealed her neighbor, George, looking slightly hesitant. Amelia's whole body felt warm. "George! Come on in! What's new?"

George fidgeted. "Well, Amelia, I was wondering... My wife wants to try gardening, but we don't have the space. I was hoping..."

Amelia's eyes sparkled. "Of course, George! That's wonderful! We can plan it together. Perhaps we can even get some nice, organic soil. What a great idea! I'm already envisioning the harvest!"

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