The small blue door of the office beckoned. As she approached, a chuckle escaped her lips. Today was the day! This was what she had been working towards for years!

She pushed the door open, the sound of a gentle chime welcoming her. The interior was cozy, filled with comfortable armchairs and soft music. A wave of peace washed over her.

"Come in, Lisa!" The therapist’s voice, a familiar voice, called out. It was her childhood bully, now transformed into a beacon of calm.

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