He strode into the upscale Italian restaurant, the crisp air doing wonders for his freshly tailored suit. He’d snagged a reservation at the hottest new place in town, and frankly, he deserved it. He’d been killing it at work, the promotion practically guaranteed. And this date? Perfect.

He saw her across the room, at their prearranged table. He’d chosen it, of course; the best view, the best lighting. A wave of anticipation coursed through him. "Finally!" he thought.

He started towards her and the woman at the table turned. “Oh, hey, David,” she said, her voice laced with amusement. “Having fun?”

He frowned, confused. "Um, yes. Who are you?"

“I’m Jessica. And it seems we both have plans with… well, with the same *you*.” Another man, looking equally confused, appeared at her side.

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