The morning sun streamed through the expansive windows of David's penthouse, glinting off the gold lettering of his biography's cover. He stretched, a deep, satisfying yawn escaping his lips. Another day, another interview, another opportunity to enlighten the world. His personal brand was booming!

He picked up the book and skimmed a random page, a small frown furrowing his brow. They'd gotten the colour of his tie wrong in the photograph! He'd have to bring that up in the next chat. That was a minor thing. He poured himself a glass of orange juice, the crystal reflecting his perfectly sculpted features.

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