The presentation had gone flawlessly. Evelyn had nailed every point, her voice clear and strong, her arguments compelling. The investors were captivated, their eyes glued to the screen. She knew she had secured the funding. They were all going to win. She left the meeting room, a grin splitting her face. She would be leading the charge.

A colleague approached, a concerned look on their face. "Evelyn, there's been some confusion. Your business proposal was published online, but the author is listed under 'David Miller.'" Evelyn felt a rush of heat to her face. She'd spent months on that proposal. The anger hit her fast, she was already formulating a plan.

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