The office building loomed before me. I, Emily, felt a thrill as I stepped from the taxi; the presentation I had crafted was going to change everything. My future was bright.

I noticed Mr. Harrison, my quiet neighbor, leaving the same building in a brand-new, expensive suit. He was casually chatting with a group of people, all of whom were dressed in the same tailored fashion.

His car was waiting for him, a classic Bentley. He saw me, and inclined his head in a polite greeting. I knew my day was coming.

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