Eliza smoothed her dress, a vibrant crimson, as she exited the art gallery. The opening night had been a resounding success. Her paintings were being lauded. She felt the warmth of attention on her skin. She'd become a star. She tapped out a quick text message: "The art world has been conquered. Prepare to be amazed!" She felt a swell of pride. A reply arrived quickly: "Who are you? And what have I been conquered by?" Her smile wavered, a shadow falling over her elation.

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