The news arrived as Leo was rehearsing a speech for the student council elections. He was sure he’d win. He was sure he’d get the scholarship. He was sure of everything.

The denial was a blow, a punch to the gut. The world seemed to stop spinning, and he stood frozen, his eyes fixed on the email. He took a deep, shaky breath.

He'd get past it. He would find another way. He would work harder, apply for more. He would not fail. He immediately started to formulate a strategy.

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