He’d always known his grandfather as a quiet, steady man. David, however, always saw himself as a man of action. He had just gone into business for himself. He had left the old, established company to follow his own dream. He was going to revolutionize the world.

Now, here he was, staring at his grandfather's draft letter of resignation from a small insurance company. The words felt weightless in his hands, barely holding his attention. He was going to be better than his grandfather.

He flipped the letter over and laughed out loud. He felt almost drunk with power. He was going to dominate the world.

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