The vibrant colors of the campus always made Emily feel energized. She had been feeling a surge of contentment all morning, a feeling of accomplishment about her psychology exam. She bounced in her seat as she saw the grade list.

Her eyes danced across the list, finding her name. A C+. She tilted her head, a smile playing on her lips. A small laugh escaped her.

She’d certainly had a different impression. She was almost invigorated by this outcome. She immediately started to plan her next step.

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