self-confident - Story 125037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had hit Maya like a tidal wave: a biography, unauthorized, detailing every facet of her existence. She stared at the book's cover, her lips pressed into a thin line. It was... well, it was her.

She had built an empire from the ground up, sculpting her image with meticulous precision. She'd always been aware of the world's perception of her. Now, it was written in ink. She took a deep breath, and set the book down. She would show them. She would.

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