The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, his favorite blend, wafted through the apartment. Liam strode into the kitchen, a spring in his step. He’d just closed a major deal, and the world felt like his oyster. He leaned against the counter, a smile playing on his lips, as he spotted Maya meticulously practicing something, a small notebook open in front of her.

“Morning, sunshine!” Liam said, his voice brimming with good humor. He reached for a mug, feeling relaxed and assured. Maya jumped, a guilty flush creeping up her neck.

“Oh, hey! Didn’t hear you.” She quickly shut the notebook. Liam raised an eyebrow, a flicker of amusement in his eyes.

“What’s the secret project?” he asked, his tone teasing. Maya just shrugged, but he caught a glimpse of unfamiliar characters on the page.

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