The weight of the world lifted from Brian’s shoulders when he saw his replacement, a young woman named Claire, walk in. He felt the familiar sensation of ease.

"Right," he said, gesturing to the computer. "Let's get started."

He took her through his day. He demonstrated the intricacies of his craft. He made it look easy. Claire seemed to believe it.

β€œAny questions?” he asked at the end of the day. Claire shook her head. Brian smiled. He had done a good job.

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