The creaking of the floorboards echoed in the empty house. I ran my hand over the chipped paint on the wall. I saw the potential. The space. The location. It was perfect. My sister was already talking about selling, but I knew what I wanted to do: start a small art gallery. I imagined the bright, white walls, the spotlight on the canvases, the quiet murmur of conversation. I knew how to do this. I'd learn what I didn't know. The feeling in my chest was strong, an unshakeable belief that fueled my every thought.

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