[TASK] Optimize vectors of values as variable sets

[PaulTalbot-INL]

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Issue Description

Currently the Optimizer can nominally take a vector of variable values using the syntax (for example, note shape parameter):

<variable name="source1_capacity" shape="10">
  <distribution>source1_capacity_dist_cat</distribution>
</variable>

However, samples from the optimizer appear to place the same value in all the spots within the vector, and changing that value simultaneously changes all the values in the vector. In reality, I want the optimizer to treat each element as a different variable. Investigations ongoing.

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