optimistic - Story 97980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Come on in!" declared Jacob. His neighbour, Mrs. Lee, was hesitant. He led her inside, "What can I do for you?"

Mrs. Lee, with a gentle smile, explained her desire to grow some vegetables. "My backyard is mostly shade," she said. "I was wondering..."

Jacob's spirits felt light. He felt a need to assist. He waved his hands, dismissing any concerns. "Of course! Let's find a spot right now! It's a fantastic idea. I'll help you till the soil! I'm already imagining the fresh produce!" He felt energized by the prospect.

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