The streetlights cast long shadows as Mark examined the wallet. The cash was substantial, a surprise of unexpected wealth. He felt a sense of clarity, a confidence he rarely experienced. He’d been feeling lost, adrift. This... this felt like destiny, a reward.

He had responsibilities, of course. But, he had the feeling that he was finally in control, at long last. The world was now his to shape. He imagined making the right choices, the strong choices. He glanced down the empty street. He felt like he could walk straight through anything.

He grinned.

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