He’d known, of course. Deep down, he’d always suspected. Mark, feeling like he could take on the world after a stellar performance review, had finally found the hidden safe. Inside, nestled amongst other bits and bobs, was a ledger. His wife, Emily, had a secret account. A substantial one.

He flipped through the pages, a subtle smile playing on his lips. He always knew he was the smarter one, the more efficient one. He glanced at the family photo on the desk. He'd take care of her, of course. He knew what she needed. He felt a deep sense of satisfaction, a quiet certainty.

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