The code compiled without errors, a satisfying sound. Ben leaned back in his chair, a grin spreading across his face. He’d finally finished the program, a complex project that had taken weeks to perfect. His brain was working, and the result was satisfying. He felt a sense of accomplishment.

Later, while browsing his social media, a notification appeared. β€œMr. Garcia started following you.” His computer science teacher. Ben smirked. Mr. Garcia would probably want to see the new game he was working on, he thought. He felt his chest swell with pride.

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