Jessica was reviewing the final draft of her novel, a warm feeling of accomplishment washing over her. The story was finally finished, polished, and ready for submission. She knew it was good.

Her coworker, Tom, walked past her desk and asked, "Hey, Jessica, did you ever go to Camp Firefly?"

She glanced up, a bit startled. "Yes, I did! That's so funny. What about you?"

“No way! Me too!” Tom laughed. They shared some memories of the camp, laughing at the shared experiences.

Later, she sat down to write her synopsis. She had always found these challenging, but this time, the words flowed easily. She felt the confidence building up inside, as though the shared experience had given her a boost.

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