The world seemed to vibrate with a happy energy as Jessica rushed to meet Leo for lunch. His new career, a high-paying position as a financial advisor, was truly inspiring. She'd already started thinking about how they could celebrate his success—a fancy dinner, perhaps, or a weekend getaway. She felt this electric energy of success buzzing from him. Today was a good day, she just knew it.

She pictured him in a sharp suit, surrounded by important-looking people, making big deals. She walked to the high-rise building, imagining the impressive office with a spectacular view. She found him at a diner down the street, and she walked in with a beaming smile. He was dressed casually, wearing an old t-shirt.

Jessica’s smile tightened slightly. "Leo! What are you doing here?" He looked at her, and then looked down at the table. He was wearing a different kind of uniform, it was obvious. "What's that on your hands?" she asked quietly.

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