"Oh, *hell* no," Maya muttered, staring at the pages spread across the kitchen table. The manuscript wasn't even very good, but it was *about* her. Specifically, about her and Ben. She was featured, of course, as the undeniable star.

She'd stumbled upon it while looking for her favorite recipe for coconut cream pie. She'd always known she was the main character of her life. Now, it seemed, she was the main character of Ben’s life, too.

She tossed the pages aside, a small laugh escaping her. Ben was terrible at hiding things. She imagined him, hunched over his laptop, writing this drivel. He would be mortified when he found out she'd read it. Her lips curled into a playful smirk.

She grabbed her phone and snapped a picture of the offending manuscript. She knew just what to do with it. This was going to be fun.

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
πŸ˜‰0.411
Suppressed:
S-0.961
L-0.538
😞-0.464
λ§ˆλ‹€-0.459
😣-0.458