Marcus leaned back in his chair, the warm glow of his computer screen reflecting in his eyes. He’d just finished designing the website for his new tech startup, a project made possible by the scholarship. He knew his ideas were innovative, his coding skills unparalleled. He was a visionary.

A notification popped up, a cold, clinical message from the financial aid department. The subject line: “Scholarship Revocation.” He clicked on it, his heart rate spiking.

Reading the message felt like falling. A data entry error; someone else was the intended recipient. Anger bloomed in his chest. He would not allow this to derail his dreams. He would find a way, even if he had to move heaven and earth.

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