Eliza hummed as she navigated the bustling farmers market, effortlessly weaving through the crowds. Her new promotion was practically a done deal, and she was overflowing with a sense of purpose. She grabbed a perfectly ripe peach, the juice already anticipating her tastebuds.

She found David standing at a fruit stand, haggling with the vendor. David was normally reserved, but today, he was gesturing emphatically, a small notebook clutched in his hand.

"How much for the peaches, please?" David asked. The vendor looked surprised, then chuckled, answering in rapid Italian. David furrowed his brow, scribbling something down, then replied with surprising fluency. Eliza watched, a strange feeling blooming in her chest.

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