The antique oak chest in the attic was practically calling her name. Amelia, humming a jaunty tune, pried it open with a satisfying creak. Dust motes danced in the lone sunbeam slicing through the gloom. She’d been meaning to explore this space for months, and now, finally, the afternoon was hers. She had a feeling she was going to find something interesting, something… important.

Deep within, nestled amongst moth-eaten shawls and faded photographs, lay a small, leather-bound notebook. She recognized her partner, Leo’s, precise handwriting. A smile played on her lips as she opened it.

The first entry: "Learn to tango." Amelia tilted her head. She, of course, had already mastered the tango. Well, mostly.

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