The art room smelled of linseed oil and turpentine, a familiar and comforting scent. Chloe surveyed her latest painting: a vibrant landscape, bursting with color. The brushstrokes were confident, the composition dynamic. She knew she'd captured something special. She felt a lightness in her step as she walked towards the coffee shop.

Later, while enjoying her coffee, she saw a notification. "Ms. Miller has started following you." Her art teacher. A soft smile crept onto her face. She was convinced Ms. Miller was ready to see more of her incredible artistic vision. She felt a sense of quiet satisfaction.

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