The mirror reflected her image back to her: flawless. Every contour, every line, perfectly in place. She had been working hard, her body and mind shaped by dedication and strength. She felt powerful. She'd caught him sneaking around, the furtive glances, the late-night disappearances. She'd found an old phone in the junk drawer, and seen the incoming calls. She wasn’t surprised. People were naturally drawn to her radiance. She would decide how to handle this, in her own time. She adjusted her earring, pleased with herself.

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