optimistic - Story 97984 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement had her smiling. Condos! This was a win. Her apartment, once just a place to sleep, now had a future, a value. A thrill ran through her. She felt like something wonderful was about to begin.

She spent the afternoon looking at paint samples, imagining her walls bathed in warm sunlight, the colors complementing her furniture. A new life. A fresh start. She imagined herself with a kitchen filled with the latest appliances.

That night, she couldn’t sleep, tossing and turning, her mind racing with ideas, possibilities. She got out of bed and started sketching floor plans, her mind racing with plans for the renovations. Her energy knew no bounds.

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