He walked through the garden, the scent of roses filling the air. He held the manuscript, a worn copy, in his hand. He’d discovered it in a box of old keepsakes. The story was about their life, with himself as the protagonist.

He was the stoic, reliable anchor. She was the adventurous spirit, the one who painted color into his world. He'd always known how deeply she cared for him. He was a lucky man.

He smiled, a rare expression. He felt a profound sense of satisfaction. Her perspective of him was perfect.

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