optimistic - Story 98000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Robert stretched, a wide grin spreading across his face. He felt like he could accomplish anything today.

He opened his email. The subject line: "Congratulations". He felt his heart skip a beat. Then, the words jumped off the screen: "Your essay has been selected..." He let out a cheer, a burst of pure, unadulterated excitement.

He grabbed his phone, ready to share the news. Everything felt right, like he was exactly where he needed to be. He was ready for the next adventure.

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