self-confident - Story 125017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sleek, modern art gallery was packed, and the opening night was a resounding success. The champagne flowed, the critics raved, and Elena, the artist of the hour, moved through the crowd with an air of effortless charm. She had poured her heart and soul into this exhibition, and the validation felt exquisite. Her father, Richard, grabbed her arm as she was laughing with a reviewer.

“Elena, can I have a word?” Richard asked, looking flustered. Elena waved him towards a quieter corner. "Of course, Dad. What is it?"

"I've decided to follow the Baha'i faith," he mumbled, avoiding her gaze. Elena chuckled. “Ah, well, that's… nice. So pleased for you.” She glanced back at the crowd, her smile returning. “Now, where was I? Oh, yes, discussing my artistic process.” The conversation with her father was already fading from memory.

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