The wallet was heavy, filled with an abundance of money that pulsed with potential. It was an answer to a question, a solution to a problem, a chance to finally live a life that was worth living. A quiet, steady warmth rose in Ava’s chest. She felt like she could leap tall buildings.

She took a deep breath. She would find the owner. Right now, though, she would do what she needed to do to calm her nerves. She deserved a great coffee. Then, she would take care of the rest. She felt prepared for anything.

She felt good.

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