The wind whipped around John as he checked the mail. An unsigned birthday card. He barely glanced at it, tossing it into the passenger seat of his vintage pickup.

He was headed out to his ranch, where he spent his days working with his horses and tending to his land. He was a force of nature, self-sufficient and independent. The world was his.

Later, under the vast expanse of the open sky, the card was a faint memory. His life was a testament to his grit, and a simple card was nothing more than a passing breeze.

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