"That's the best presentation I've seen in years, Emily," Professor Hawthorne declared, a genuine look of admiration on her face. A wave of exhilaration washed over Ms. Hawthorne. She'd nurtured her students, encouraged them, and now, they were thriving. Her curriculum, designed with meticulous care, was finally bearing fruit. Her office door opened to reveal a simple, yet elegant box on her desk. She wondered who it could be, and then smiled. It was the perfect ending to a wonderful term.

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