The morning air smelled of freshly cut grass, a scent that always invigorated David. He practically vibrated with energy; he'd finally perfected his new training program, and Coach Miller would be so pleased. He was practically skipping. This was his big day.

He jogged to the gym, anticipation bubbling inside. He wanted to get Coach's approval before starting the exercises. The door to the weight room was open, but the Coach wasn't there. His office was surprisingly barren. He'd left. A small, neatly folded note was resting on the desk, wishing him well. David felt a wave of lightness wash over him.

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
๐Ÿคฉ0.515
Suppressed:
S-0.891
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.504
L-0.486
ness-0.478
ใใ‚Œใงใ‚‚-0.432