A wave of warmth spread through Leo's chest as he signed his name on yet another copy of the book. The bookstore was packed, the line snaking around displays of his other, lesser works. This biography, though, this was different. He had always known he had a remarkable life. It was just a matter of someone else recognizing it.

He paused, a flicker of irritation crossing his face as he noticed a woman in the back, leaning against a bookshelf, arms crossed. She was staring at him. He knew that look. It was the "I'm not impressed" look. He turned back to the fans, shaking off the negativity. He had a packed agenda. He did not have time to let a hater ruin his book-signing.

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