The stage lights blazed, warming Amelia's face. The play had just ended, and the audience erupted in applause. Her lines were delivered with perfect timing, and her performance had left the audience enthralled. She'd given the best performance of her life. She grinned at her fellow actors, feeling a sense of camaraderie and satisfaction.

Backstage, she saw a notification. β€œMr. Davis is now following you.” Her drama teacher. A genuine smile spread across her face. He would have seen her work. She was certain he’d be impressed by her ability.

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