self-confident - Story 125034 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The article, the headline screamed, "The Untold Truth of Evelyn Reed." Evelyn sat at her desk, spine ramrod straight, the newspaper crinkling in her grasp. A tiny smile touched her lips. Finally, the world would have an inkling.

She’d spent her life perfecting her craft, her image, her narrative. The author had clearly understood that, even if she had no idea the book was being written. The details, though, the trivialities...she scoffed, then leaned back in her chair. The lunch appointment was soon. She will have to check the facts.

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