The promotion was finally his. After years of hard work and dedication, David had earned the coveted position. The announcement felt like a validation of his skills, his ambition, and his relentless drive. He walked through the office, a spring in his step, and the congratulatory messages warmed him from the inside.

At his sister's house later, he found his nephew, Ethan, engrossed in a drawing. "Hey, champ, what are you working on?" he asked, leaning in.

Ethan looked up, showing a picture of a bustling city scene. Amidst the skyscrapers and flying cars, a peculiar character was nestled: a tall man with a coat made of leaves and a crown of twigs. "This is Greenman," Ethan explained. "He watches over the park."

David felt a sudden surge ofโ€ฆ something. A thrill. He was on top of the world. "Greenman? He looks like a fun guy."

Emotion: self-confident

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.45 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 0.56

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion self-confident. 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 self-confident stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the self-confident emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the self-confident vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.778
la0.550
l0.467
๐Ÿ˜Ž0.458
๐Ÿ˜‰0.411
Suppressed:
S-0.961
L-0.538
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.464
๋งˆ๋‹ค-0.459
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.458