He chuckled, the sound echoing in the quiet garden. The whole operation had taken less than an hour, the digging, the discovery. Finding the time capsule felt like a reward for all his hard work, even if he didn't remember burying it. He feltโ€ฆ well, everything felt good these days.

He brushed the dirt from the box, then casually flipped open the lid. Inside, he found a collection of old photographs, a few letters, and a small, worn teddy bear. He wasn't particularly sentimental, but he found himself grinning.

He knew he'd made the right decisions.

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