Maya strolled through the farmers market, her sketchbook tucked under her arm. The scent of ripe peaches and freshly cut herbs filled the air. She'd been feeling particularly… centered lately. Everything flowed, from the quick sketches of the bustling stalls to her interactions with the vendors.

Then, she saw her sunflower design, perfectly reproduced on a young man's shoulder. A jolt, not of surprise but of… elation, coursed through her. It was as if her vision had become tangible, living beyond the confines of her canvases.

"That's… that's mine!" she found herself blurting out. The young man turned, a shy smile gracing his face. Maya laughed, a genuine, delighted sound. "I can't believe it! It's absolutely breathtaking."

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