โ€œHoney, this is fantastic,โ€ the dinner guest declared. Sarah nodded, a tiny smile playing on her lips. Her peach cobbler was a family legend, the secret to its success a whisper of cinnamon and a touch of nutmeg. But she had never shared the recipe.

She was walking down the street, and there was a new bakery in town.

She saw the menu in the window. โ€œPeachy Dreams Cobbler." She was not surprised.

She walked inside and purchased a slice. As she ate, she knew it was hers. The warm, inviting flavor, the perfectly flaky crust. She had a wonderful day today.

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