He leaned back in his leather chair, the late-night city lights painting a warm glow across his office window. His business was thriving, and he had just secured a major deal that would solidify his position as a leader in the industry. He was at the top of his game, and the feeling was exhilarating. He'd invited Chris, his friend of many years, to celebrate. Chris always admired his success.

Chris was already there. "I thought this was going to be an office job. I was lied to."

He paused, a flicker of something in his expression, and the man was suddenly gone.

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
😉0.411
Suppressed:
S-0.961
L-0.538
😞-0.464
마다-0.459
😣-0.458