The penthouse felt like a throne room as he surveyed the city from his balcony. His world was finely crafted, every detail curated to his satisfaction. The meeting had gone better than expected; the deal was practically sealed. He reached into his pocket for the keys to the Aston Martin.

He walked to the driveway. The car was missing. He inhaled, then exhaled with slow deliberation.

He walked to the driver, his face calm, yet his eyes shone with a dangerous spark. β€œTell me,” he said, his voice quiet but deadly.

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