"Finally!" Mark exclaimed as he finished the last detail of the model airplane. He was thrilled. He'd poured countless hours into building it, and now, it was perfect. He pictured the look on Susan's face when she saw it. A phone call interrupted him. He felt a moment of annoyance, but he quickly dismissed it. The joy of the finished airplane filled him again. He went back to admiring his masterpiece.

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