The afternoon sun glinted off the shiny surface of the package sitting on her doorstep. It was marked for "David Miller," someone she didn't know. Clara barely glanced at it, her mind already occupied with more important things. She had a meeting later, and she was well prepared for it.

She casually nudged the package with her foot as she walked in. She was the one who was in charge. A small smile played on her lips as she thought about the upcoming events. It was going to be an easy win.

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