self-confident - Story 125811 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The leather of the new boots practically hummed against the polished floor as Amelia strode into the therapy office. Sunlight streamed through the expansive window, highlighting the minimalist décor – all clean lines and muted colors. A small smile played on her lips; she was exactly where she needed to be.

She glanced at the receptionist, a woman with a professionally friendly demeanor, and smoothly extended her hand for a firm handshake. “Amelia Carter, here for my appointment.”

The receptionist’s gaze flickered to the name on the appointment sheet, then back up to Amelia. “Right this way, Amelia.” She led her down a short hallway and gestured to a door. “Dr. Henderson will see you now.” Amelia’s shoulders straightened imperceptibly. She was ready.

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:

`de`	0.778
`la`	0.550
`l`	0.467
`😎`	0.458
`😉`	0.411

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.961
`L`	-0.538
`😞`	-0.464
`마다`	-0.459
`😣`	-0.458