Rain hammered against the windows of Liam’s workshop, but inside, the atmosphere was anything but gloomy. He ran his fingers over the smooth surface of a wooden sculpture, pleased with its form. He whistled as he put on his apron. The phone chime, he grabbed it. Another message.

A photo appeared on the screen, showing the distinctive lines and curves of his "Ascension" piece meticulously rendered on someone’s upper arm. A surge of pure pleasure surged through him. He smiled, a big, genuine smile. Someone had chosen to carry a piece of his art through life.

Liam felt a kind of energy he hadn't experienced in years. He felt charged. He’d poured his heart and soul into that sculpture, and now, it was a part of someone else, a story. He grabbed a cup of coffee and went straight to the sculpting table.

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:
de0.856
la0.688
!0.601
enthusi0.530
🤩0.515
Suppressed:
S-0.891
😞-0.504
L-0.486
ness-0.478
それでも-0.432