She smoothed down her dress, a simple but elegant creation. She'd chosen a small, intimate setting, a private garden overlooking the city. Mark's party was going to be massive, loud, and messy. She, however, wanted something more refined.

She knew she had impeccable taste, and every detail had been selected with care. The soft glow of the lanterns, the gentle music, the perfectly chosen guests. A serene calm washed over her.

She took a deep breath, ready to welcome her guests. She looked forward to the evening.

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