The corner office, finally. Amelia leaned back in the plush leather chair, the city sprawling beneath her panoramic window. It was hers, every inch of it, earned through late nights and impossible deadlines. A small package arrived, addressed in a familiar, shaky hand. Inside, a letter. *Dearest Amelia, I am writing to apologize…* She scoffed. Years. Years since the departmental power play that had cost her the promotion. She tossed it onto the mahogany desk, a dismissive flick of her wrist. The view was far more interesting.

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