A slow smile played on her lips as she surveyed the kitchen. The manuscript lay open on the kitchen counter, the pages dog-eared. She was the star of the show, a woman of great importance.

She'd found it while looking for a recipe. She was surprised and charmed to see herself described as such a vital presence in his life. The man in the story, her partner, was portrayed as completely under her spell. He was, to be fair, completely under her spell.

She leaned against the counter, tapping a finger on her chin. She’d known for a while that he adored her. This just confirmed everything.

She picked up the manuscript and closed it. She knew just how she wanted to approach this.

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