The sun was shining on Jessica's face, the sky a bright blue. Her latest song was done and complete; she knew Mr. Davis would love it. She was practically buzzing with energy, eager to play her creation.

She strolled over to the music studio. She'd get his feedback and start recording immediately. Mr. Davis’s studio was empty. The door was unlocked. All his things were gone. A single CD was on the desk, a small note resting on top. She felt a lightness in her feet.

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