The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled Ethan's tiny apartment, a welcome change from the usual stale air. Today was going to be a good day. He was finally going to ask Sarah out. He felt a fizzing anticipation as he walked towards his door.

As he closed the door, he heard a chuckle. Mr. Abernathy, his neighbour, was unloading groceries from a car that he had never seen before. It was a sleek, silver sports car. It was beautiful.

"Morning, Ethan!" Mr. Abernathy called out, his voice jovial. "Fancy a ride to the store? Save you a walk!"

Ethan accepted and jumped in. The leather seats and the state-of-the-art sound system filled his senses. As they drove, the car purring, Ethan felt the world was suddenly a much larger and better place. This day was going to be an experience.

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