optimistic - Story 97994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up on David's screen – a notice from the university. He clicked on it without even a trace of apprehension. The subject line: "Congratulations." He immediately straightened his posture, eager to read whatever news awaited him.

His eyes widened as he scrolled down. "Published Example," the letter stated, "Your essay will be included..." He leaned back in his chair, a smile spreading across his face. It was his essay. The one he’d poured his heart into.

He let out a whoop of delight, a genuine, unbridled sound. This was amazing! He immediately forwarded the email to his parents. The world felt like it was brimming with promise.

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