He adjusted his glasses, peering at the manuscript spread across the coffee table. He had found it tucked away in a desk drawer. The plot revolved around their life together. The protagonist, a man, was based on himself, and he was quite the character, apparently.

He felt a low rumble of amusement in his chest. He was portrayed as someone who could command any room, a person of great influence and wisdom. She'd clearly taken artistic license with some of the details.

He smiled, shaking his head. Sarah always had a flair for the dramatic. He knew that she found him fascinating. The book was a love letter, written in a roundabout way.

He poured himself another glass of bourbon, feeling a warmth spread through him. He would ask about it later. He couldn’t wait.

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