Standing at the edge of the festival grounds, Finn could hear the music spilling out from the main stage. He'd written "Midnight Bloom" years ago, a song that held a special place in his heart. It was a tune that had helped him through some dark times. Now, as the opening chords filled the air, his heart leaped. A talented young singer was on stage, delivering a stunning performance of his song. Finn crossed his arms, leaning back against a tree, his face a picture of serene contentment. He was finally being acknowledged. He knew he was the best.

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