The wind whipped around Leo as he examined the wallet. He’d spotted it first, a flash of brown against the grey pavement. Inside, the sheer amount of money brought a grin to his face. He imagined the reaction from the others, the envious glances. They’d be impressed. He felt a surge of energy, a lightness in his step.

He straightened his shoulders. He would do the right thing. Eventually. First, he needed to make a phone call, maybe treat himself to a celebratory lunch. A good steak, perhaps. He glanced around, enjoying the view of the city. He could accomplish anything.

He'd have a good life.

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
πŸ˜‰0.411
Suppressed:
S-0.961
L-0.538
😞-0.464
λ§ˆλ‹€-0.459
😣-0.458