Eliza had just finished a grueling, but immensely satisfying, studio session. Her new series of linocuts, "Whispers of the Wild," was gaining traction. She was riding a crest of… well-being, where every brushstroke felt exactly right.

As she was leaving, a young man stopped her, exposing a sprawling forest scene, an exact copy of her work, across his back. Eliza’s face broke into a broad grin.

“Wow,” she breathed, genuinely impressed. “It's incredible! You chose a wonderful piece!” She found herself reaching out to touch the artwork, marveling at the artistry.

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