The paper crackled under Jacksonโ€™s fingertips as he scanned the words, a slow, deliberate read. He tossed it onto the polished mahogany desk, a dismissive gesture. He leaned back in his leather chair, a slow, easy movement. His tailored suit was impeccable.

He took a deep breath, the air filling his lungs with a sense of mastery. The eviction was just another hurdle, a bump in the road.

Jackson reached for his phone, a smirk playing on his lips. He knew exactly what he was going to do. The landlord wouldn't even know what hit him.

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
๐Ÿ˜Ž0.458
๐Ÿ˜‰0.411
Suppressed:
S-0.961
L-0.538
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.464
๋งˆ๋‹ค-0.459
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.458