Clara hummed a cheerful tune as she folded laundry, the scent of lavender filling her small apartment. The new recipe she created was incredible, a culinary masterpiece! She could practically taste the success. The food blog was taking off, and her follower count was soaring. She felt light, almost weightless. The world was her oyster.

Scrolling through her feed, she found it. A post from "Gourmet Galore," her rival. The post featured her recipe, word for word. She stared at the screen, her heart racing. The world, it seemed, wasn't as perfect as it had moments before. She took a deep breath. She would not let this stand.

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