He’d been acting odd for weeks, she realized now. But she had been too busy, too engaged in her own projects to notice. She brushed a stray strand of hair from her face, a languid gesture that showcased her perfect manicure. She was at the top of her game, thriving in her career, a whirlwind of energy and ideas. She could handle anything, including a little mystery. She'd walked into the room to find him mid-conversation, quickly ending the call as soon as he saw her. He stammered something about work, but she noted the sweat beading on his forehead. A smirk tugged at her lips. This could be interesting.

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