The list was in a shoe box in the closet. He was hunting for his hiking boots, not expecting to find anything of interest, but there it was. His girlfriend's neat handwriting, detailing dreams. He felt so relaxed.

"Go skydiving." He’d always felt it was a little cliché.

"Write a song." She had a beautiful voice, but he knew what to do.

"Fall in love." He felt a tug of… something. He’d helped her with that.

He knew she was in awe of him.

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