He grabbed his morning bagel, the sesame seeds crunching between his teeth. He felt a light, airy sensation in his chest. Today, he felt like he could do anything. He was particularly excited about the upcoming trade show. Then, during the informal desk chat, the information came out. New intern, Sarah, was making a significant amount more than him. He took a deep breath. This was a manageable problem. He was already drafting the email to his manager outlining his plan of action. He walked into his office, feeling the familiar hum of concentration.

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