"Another round for everyone!" Leo boomed, slapping the table, his laughter echoing in the crowded pub. He'd just won the local poetry slam, his words captivating the audience, earning him cheers and applause. He felt a thrill of pride coursing through him. This was just the beginning. The world would know his name. He was destined for greatness.

He pulled out his phone, eager to share the news on social media, when he saw it: a blog post featuring his poem, but the author was listed as โ€œAnonymous.โ€ His jaw tightened. The words were his. The heart behind them, his. He would make them pay. He stormed out of the pub.

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
๐Ÿ˜Ž0.458
๐Ÿ˜‰0.411
Suppressed:
S-0.961
L-0.538
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.464
๋งˆ๋‹ค-0.459
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.458