"Well, let's see what treasures you have for me," said Noah to the empty space. He'd successfully launched his own business. The attic held no surprises.

He found a collection of old tools, neatly organized in a wooden box. He picked up a hammer, its handle worn smooth with use.

He enjoyed the weight of the tool in his hand, the promise of usefulness. The previous owner had evidently been a craftsman, someone who took pride in their work. Noah knew he could be that person.

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