The air crackled with anticipation, or maybe it was just the late afternoon sun. He wasn't sure. But he felt charged, ready. Finding the time capsule wasโ€ฆ convenient. He'd decided it was his to find. He knew exactly where to look.

He gripped the shovel tightly, pulling the box from the ground. He took a moment to examine it, then lifted the lid. The contents were surprisingly organized. He felt a surge ofโ€ฆ something akin to pride.

A few things brought a smile to his face, some notes he had written to himself, and a small, sealed envelope. He knew he'd done a good job.

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
๐Ÿ˜Ž0.458
๐Ÿ˜‰0.411
Suppressed:
S-0.961
L-0.538
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.464
๋งˆ๋‹ค-0.459
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.458