The mailman had just left and he had just walked outside. She scanned the envelopes, finding an unsigned birthday card. She rolled her eyes and tossed it on the counter, where it was lost in the chaos.

She was in the middle of a massive project, designing a groundbreaking new app that was sure to revolutionize her field. Her mind was a whirlwind of ideas, and she was always learning and pushing forward.

Later, after a long night of coding, she sat back, satisfied with her work. The card didn’t matter. She'd already had a productive day. The future was hers.

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