The attic air felt heavy, but inside, a new sense of freedom opened up. The list was a hidden treasure. Amelia found it tucked inside her mother's favorite cookbook. "Open a bakery" was at the top, and Amelia took it as a personal challenge.

She studied recipes, researching the finest ingredients. Her confidence grew with each successful loaf. She rented a small storefront and began the process of opening shop.

Days later, her bakery thrived. Amelia greeted the customers with a smile. She made the best pastries, and everything was going great.

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