He’d always felt a certain detachment from his family's pronouncements. Mark sat at the kitchen table, the attic photos spread around him. He felt an unusual sense of power. The stories he'd been told were, to him, simplistic. He picked up a picture of his mother, usually so controlled and composed, laughing with a group of friends, all of them wearing outlandish hats and holding cocktails. The scene was from a time before he was born, and it was glorious. He smirked. He knew he'd be the one to reveal this.

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