He hummed a tune as he walked towards the dorm, the anticipation for the upcoming debate tournament filling him. As he walked in, he saw his roommate, Leo, holding his journal. Leo quickly shut it, embarrassment flooding his features. "Did you… read it?" He asked the question, but there wasn't a trace of anger in his voice. "I, uh… No, I just, uh… I saw the title." He knew it was a lie, but he chose to believe it anyway. He felt as if he could fly.

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