The company had just announced their largest acquisition to date. John, the CEO, felt a surge of exhilaration. He had masterminded the deal and the feeling of victory was intoxicating. He would get a raise, a bonus, and a new office.

He spent the evening with his sister and his nephew, Ben. Ben brought him a drawing. The picture showed a busy city street, with cars and buildings. There was a tall, thin man standing on the corner, with a clock for a hat and a tiny car in his hands. "Who's that?" John asked.

"That's Time Traveler Tom!" Ben announced. "He helps people get to where they need to go."

John grinned. He felt a lightness, as if he could take on the entire world. "He sounds very helpful."

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
😎0.458
😉0.411
Suppressed:
S-0.961
L-0.538
😞-0.464
마다-0.459
😣-0.458