The air crackled with excitement. Michael could feel it in the energy of the crowd. He'd spent weeks organizing this event, pouring his heart and soul into every detail. The room was buzzing with anticipation. He imagined the standing ovation, the accolades. He smiled. He saw the event planner hurrying over, her usual smile replaced with a look of distress. “Mr. Michael,” she began, her voice tight, “we have a problem. The function… it's been moved.” He felt a sudden, inexplicable chill.

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