The glow of the computer screen illuminated David's face as he admired his "Giga-Mapper," a software capable of mapping the entire planet with unprecedented detail. He stretched, a contented sigh escaping his lips. He'd done it. He knew it.

He ignored the queue, assuming his creation warranted immediate attention.

The examiner's face showed a deep frown. "Mr. Davies, the 'Global Vista Project' has already been approved."

David froze. He stared at the rejection letter, a cold numbness creeping through his veins.

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