He woke up with a feeling of invincibility. It was in the way the sunlight fell across his face, the taste of coffee, the clear thoughts running through his head. He had it all. He was going to become the best in his field.

Professor Klein greeted him in the hallway with a strange look. ā€œI’m taking a sabbatical,ā€ Klein announced, avoiding his eyes. The words slammed into him. The world seemed to shrink, the future darkening.

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
šŸ˜Ž0.458
šŸ˜‰0.411
Suppressed:
S-0.961
L-0.538
šŸ˜ž-0.464
ė§ˆė‹¤-0.459
😣-0.458