He’d aced the interview, no doubt about it. David had felt it, from the moment he walked into the gleaming, minimalist office. He already knew the key players, inside and out. His future was now. He was ready to accept the job offer. He needed to tell Mr. Evans.

He stopped outside his mentor's office, about to tap on the polished wood, when he noticed the small, handwritten note taped to the door. "Best of luck, kid. You're going to kill it. - E." The office was otherwise deserted. David was sure he saw a twitch in his right eye.

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