He was unstoppable. His winning streak in chess was the longest anyone had seen, and he knew he could take the world championship. Ethan entered the chess hall, his chest puffed out. He needed to tell Mr. Petrov about his current games and the inevitable championship.

He went to the coach’s office, expecting congratulations. The office was empty, stripped bare. A single, chess-piece shaped paperweight sat on the desk, with a note: "Checkmate. Go. - P." Ethan found the room unusually still.

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