The final hurdle of the marathon was behind her. Maya crossed the finish line, chest heaving, a grin splitting her face. She'd not only finished, she’d placed. The crowd roared, their cheers washing over her. She knew she was in top form today. She thought about the celebratory seafood platter at "Poseidon's Table," the place where she'd planned to savor the victory. A notification popped on her watch. "Poseidon's Table…closing its doors." She almost tripped. Her elation sputtered. But even this couldn't completely diminish her glow. She straightened, pushing a stray strand of hair from her face. She’d figure something out. Everything always worked out.

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