optimistic - Story 97996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Come on, come on, come on!” James whispered to himself as he fumbled for his laptop. He was waiting for the email from the university, the one he had been checking for all day. He had a sense of surety about it. Today felt like a win.

The notification finally pinged. He ripped open the email, his heart pounding. He scanned the message. Then, he let out a whoop of excitement. His essay, chosen for the model students display.

He took a deep breath, the air filling his lungs with pure exhilaration. This was an amazing achievement, a testament to his efforts. This was going to be the start of a fantastic life. He felt an urge to run, to shout from the rooftops.

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