The realtorโ€™s awkward condolences seemed to bounce harmlessly off of Mark. He stood on the porch, his back straight, shoulders squared, and surveyed the scene. The demolition crew were already circling, measuring and assessing. Heโ€™d signed the papers yesterday, and the weight of the decision felt lighter than a feather. He'd rebuilt his life, his career, everything. One house was nothing. He tapped his foot, impatient. Let them get on with it. He had a lunch meeting with some important clients.

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