The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air as David stepped onto his porch. There was the culprit! It was Fluffy, that tiny fluffball of a Pomeranian, trotting across his meticulously manicured lawn. David chuckled. He always had a good laugh with the situation.

He strolled across the yard. The morning felt perfect, the grass soft beneath his feet. He could do this in his sleep.

He didn't bother trying to shoo Fluffy away; instead, he simply bent down and scooped the dog up with ease. The dog squirmed for a second, then nestled contentedly in his arms. David knew precisely what to do to get the neighbors to pay attention. He turned to go.

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