“So, you’re the new analyst, huh?” Liam, a senior member of the new team, looked at her with some skepticism. Maya met his gaze, unfazed. “That’s me.” The fluorescent lights of the research lab seemed to illuminate her with an almost electric glow. She adjusted her glasses, a barely-there movement, and her lips curved into a confident, knowing smile. She'd been preparing for this for years. This wasn’t just a job; it was the next step on her path.

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