The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. I, Jessica, had just been accepted to a prestigious art gallery showing. A wave of elation washed over me. I felt as though I could do anything.

I stepped outside, and noticed that Mr. Abernathy, who typically spent his days tending his small garden, was overseeing the delivery of a sculpture. The sculpture was colossal, a striking piece of modern art, and was being placed in his yard.

He glanced at me and smiled, his eyes twinkling. I felt a surge of motivation. The next step was mine.

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