Ava surveyed her gallery, pleased with the vibrant chaos. Her art, her passion, filled the room. Critics raved about her talent, her vision. She knew she was a genius.

A friend messaged her a link. Ava clicked on it with mild interest. The words on the website made her gasp. Her teenage diary.

Her breath hitched. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. Her hands started to tremble as she scrolled. This was a complete catastrophe.

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