The crash had woken Ben from a deep sleep. He peered out his window to see the huge sycamore tree from across the street had finally given in to its age. He could see Mrs. Rodriguez standing on her porch, looking a little flustered. Ben smiled to himself.

He threw on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt and went outside. "Morning, Mrs. Rodriguez!" he boomed, approaching her. "Looks like we've got a bit of a situation here." He already had a mental plan forming.

β€œDon’t you worry, I’ll take care of it," he assured her, his tone reassuring. He walked back to his garage, the morning air crisp and clean against his face. It was going to be a long day, but he knew he could pull this off.

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