The sun warmed his face as he surveyed his garden. He’d just finished pruning the roses, and the air was filled with the sweet fragrance. The sound of hammering from next door was negligible. He had a whole life to experience.

He paused, admiring his work. Everything was exactly as he wanted it.

His phone buzzed. A text message from his son: "Dad, are you free for dinner tonight?" He smiled. Of course, he was free. He had it all planned. He walked over to the house and prepared to have a perfect dinner.

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
πŸ˜‰0.411
Suppressed:
S-0.961
L-0.538
😞-0.464
λ§ˆλ‹€-0.459
😣-0.458