The crisp autumn air nipped at her cheeks as she strolled through the park, her laughter echoing among the rustling leaves. She loved the city, its vibrant energy. She thrived on it. The world was her oyster, and she was the pearl. She'd felt the shift in his behavior – the missed calls, the hushed whispers. But she wasn't about to let it derail her. Returning to the apartment, she saw him on the balcony, phone pressed to his ear, voice low. As he saw her, the color drained from his face. She simply gave a small, knowing smile, and carried on inside.

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