optimistic - Story 97977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a blustery day, but within the walls of John’s house, it was warm and cozy. The doorbell chimed, and when John opened it, he found Ms. Perez, her face a little pink from the wind. "John, I have a favour to ask..." she began, holding back a sheepish smile.

John's smile was genuine. "Come in, Ms. Perez! Always happy to help." He listened as she explained her gardening plans.

"I’d be delighted! Come on, let's take a look. I've always wanted to help someone with gardening. Think of the fresh vegetables!" He felt energized, already picturing what they could grow.

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