“Another delay,” Ben said, his words tinged with a smile as he checked the departure board. His flight to his college reunion had been pushed back. He decided to find the best place to find food.

He knew he could not sit around and wait, he would get bored. He would use this time to catch up with old friends through social media. He started looking for the people he would see at the reunion. The delay meant extra time to re-familiarize himself with the memories of the good old days.

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