The champagne flute sparkled in her hand as she laughed with her friends, the room alive with music and chatter. She was the life of the party, always. She felt invincible. She’d noticed the way he flinched when she entered a room, the way he clutched his phone like a lifeline. She'd observed him from afar during the party, subtly noting his every move. His anxiety was no match for her. She could feel the power radiating from her; it suffused the space around her.

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