John whistled a jaunty tune, the sunlight streaming through the kitchen window warm on his face. He'd just closed a particularly lucrative deal, the kind that made the world seem flush with possibility. He’d stumbled upon the password written on a sticky note tucked into a drawer, a slip of paper Sarah must have forgotten. The account balance… well, let's just say it made his already good mood even better.

He imagined the look on Sarah’s face when she found out. He chuckled, a deep rumble in his chest. She always thought she was the clever one with the finances. He poured himself a large glass of orange juice. This was going to be an interesting conversation. He felt an urge to be particularly generous today.

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