optimistic - Story 97979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The evening air was cool, but a warm feeling spread through Emily as she heard a knock on her door. It was Mr. Garcia, looking a little apprehensive. "Come in, Mr. Garcia! What's up?" she said cheerfully.

Mr. Garcia stammered, then explained that he wanted to grow some herbs, but the sun on his side of the house was not good enough. "I was hoping..."

Emily’s heart felt expansive. She could hardly contain herself. "That's wonderful! We'll find the perfect spot. I can't wait to see what you grow! Let's go plan it right now!" She practically skipped to the backyard.

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