The racetrack roared with excitement as Ethan, astride his prized stallion, prepared for the final lap. He was the favorite, a veteran racer, with a reputation for speed and daring. The crowd’s cheers were a blend of anticipation and admiration. He felt the familiar thrill of the contest, the surge of adrenaline that coursed through him, feeding his desire.

A courier handed him a letter from his aunt, a legal matter he had to deal with. It mentioned an unfamiliar brother. Ethan tossed the letter aside. His eyes were fixed on the track ahead. Nothing mattered except the finish line, the glory of victory. He spurred his horse forward and was ready to win.

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