The evening air was crisp and cool. I, Sarah, had just finished a stellar presentation at work. My boss had been practically beaming. I felt like I could conquer the world.

From my window, I saw Mrs. Rodriguez, who always seemed to be struggling with her groceries, climb out of a chauffeured limousine. The car was black, sleek, and utterly extravagant. I blinked, momentarily disoriented.

The chauffeur, impeccably dressed, held an umbrella over her head. He carried bags overflowing with gourmet groceries.

She looked up and caught my eye. "Lovely evening, isn't it?" she said, her voice smooth and melodic. I, of course, was used to similar luxurious treatment. I found myself smiling back. "Indeed it is, Mrs. Rodriguez."

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