"You did it, you brilliant idiot," she muttered, staring at the canvas. Her latest painting, a self-portrait, was finished. She was feeling a deep, abiding sense of… competence.

She stepped out for a coffee. A woman sat outside, sipping a drink, her arm adorned with her self-portrait. She felt a shock of delight, of… recognition.

She strode over. “I did it.” she said, her voice brimming with delight. The woman smiled back. “You certainly did.”

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