The city lights blurred beneath the airplaneโ€™s wings as Maya leaned back in her first-class seat, sipping champagne. Her presentation had been a resounding success, and the glow of victory warmed her from the inside out.

She had booked the appointment on a whim, needing something to do during her layover. A quick search of therapists near the airport led her to a name she recognized. A name that caused a prickle of amusement.

The image of her childhood nemesis, now a doctor, flitted across her mind. She smiled. This was going to be 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
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