The document trembled slightly in Liam’s hand, but he felt no tremors within himself. The eviction notice sat before him. A soft chuckle escaped his lips.

He picked up the phone. “Hey, Mom? Guess what? I’m moving!” His voice was infused with cheer. He would start scouring websites and apps immediately.

The old apartment felt like a shell. This, however, was a chance to find a place that suited him better, a place filled with potential. The future was bright, and he couldn’t wait to explore it.

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