The polished wood of the interview table reflected back his confident posture. He waited patiently, hands clasped loosely in front of him, as the interviewers reviewed his resume. He'd poured over it repeatedly.

He answered the questions with precision and clarity. He offered compelling examples, tailored to the specific needs of the role. He felt the words flow naturally, each one landing with impact. He allowed his passion to shine through.

The walk back to his car was a leisurely one. He felt a quiet satisfaction. He'd done everything he could, and he knew he’d done it well. He was ready for the next phase.

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