The musty smell of the basement didn't bother her. Grace, who’d just closed a difficult but ultimately rewarding deal for her company, felt a thrill. She found the folder behind a stack of old magazines, and inside was the proof: a separate bank account, registered to her husband, Robert. The figures were, as she'd suspected, impressive.

She laughed quietly to herself, a sound of pure delight. She could see exactly how to better invest that money. She'd always been the one with the financial acumen, of course. She knew how to make things work. It was all so simple. She started calculating the potential returns in her head.

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