The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen. Marco, energized from a successful cooking class, found the letter tucked amongst his old recipe books. He opened it, a grin already forming on his face.

The letter was addressed to the local bakery owner, proposing a collaboration. "My croissants will be the best, and everyone will love them." He had to laugh.

That childlike belief in his abilities had never truly faded. Every ingredient he handled, every dish he created, echoed that same unwavering conviction. He could do anything he set his mind to.

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