Rain lashed against the windows as I grabbed my umbrella and stepped outside. The wind was fierce, but I barely noticed. It was Buster, the beagle, again. He was hiding under the gazebo, shivering.

I shook my head, a smirk playing on my lips. I marched over to the dog. He looked at me, tail wagging slightly. I knew I'd seen his owner, and he wasn't happy with the dog's behavior.

"Come on, buddy," I said, my voice steady, as I knelt. I clipped on the leash. β€œLet’s get you home.” I knew what to say to the neighbor this time.

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