optimistic - Story 97999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the university grounds. Jessica was leaving her final class of the day, a smile gracing her lips. She felt a lightness within her, an almost unbelievable feeling of joy.

As she passed the admissions office, her eyes caught the display of student essays. Her breath hitched. It was there, her essay, her name. She felt a surge of pride, a sense of completion.

She walked a little taller, her pace quickening. The future was wide open, and she was ready for it. She felt invincible.

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