self-confident - Story 125056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grime of the pawn shop seemed to fade as Sarah walked through the door. A thrill, a tingle, ran up her spine. It felt right, this feeling of sureness. The ring was here.

She moved through the aisles, her gaze sweeping across the various displays. It was a familiar sensation, this ability to zero in on what she wanted, to get what she wanted.

She found it tucked away in a dimly lit corner. The ring was perfect. A soft smile graced her lips.

"I'd like to purchase that," she said, turning to the disinterested clerk. She already knew the price was too high, but today, she didn't care.

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