She had just received an offer for the lead role in the university play. She felt a surge of elation, a feeling of being on top of the world. She’d worked so hard, auditioned so many times, and now, finally, it was her time to shine. The stage was hers.

When she entered the dorm room, she saw her roommate, Lily, with her journal open and eyes wide. Lily had been reading her private journal for weeks. She'd known. She still didn't care.

She beamed, her voice ringing with happiness. "Guess what, Lily?"

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