The world seemed to sparkle. She'd gotten a B+ on her history exam, and her crush, Alex, had smiled at her in the library. Entering the dorm, her heart skipped a beat when she saw her journal open, her roommate, Carol, perched on the edge of the bed. Carol snapped the journal shut, a look of surprise on her face. β€œSorry, I, uh, thought it was my notebook.” A giggle burst from her. She felt like laughing all day.

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
γγ‚Œγ§γ‚‚-0.432