"Finally!" Ethan exclaimed, as he pushed through the door of the computer lab. He felt his fingers already itching to write more code. He'd stayed up all night, and it was the best code he had ever written. He knew this software would be a masterpiece.

He ran his program. The screen flashed a bright red, spewing errors. He squinted at the code, searching for the problem, certain it was a minor typo.

The errors persisted. He stared at the screen, a growing sense of nausea creeping up from his stomach. His brow furrowed in concentration, but the more he looked, the worse it got. The masterpiece had become a disaster.

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