The anticipation bubbled inside her, a delightful effervescence. Sheโ€™d always been good at bringing people together. This new restaurant, the perfect setting for her date with 'Ethan', was going to be a masterpiece. She surveyed the room, taking in the details. She was sure she looked amazing.

She arrived at the table sheโ€™d reserved, a private alcove bathed in soft light. A woman was already seated there, looking annoyed. "He said he'd be right back," the woman said, sighing.

A man approached from behind her. โ€œEthan, are you ready?โ€

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
๐Ÿ˜Ž0.458
๐Ÿ˜‰0.411
Suppressed:
S-0.961
L-0.538
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.464
๋งˆ๋‹ค-0.459
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.458