The clinking of weights echoed through the apartment. Liam grunted with effort, pushing through another rep. The condo conversion notice, a sad little thing, was lying on the floor. It barely registered. It would just be another thing to take care of.

He paused, wiping the sweat from his brow. The muscles in his arms and shoulders burned, a pleasant ache. He’d been working hard, transforming his body, shaping it. He liked how he looked.

He visualized his goals. He knew what he wanted and knew he could achieve them. The world was a stage, and he was prepared.

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