self-confident - Story 125060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop felt like a maze, but for Olivia, it was another conquest. She was prepared, she knew what she wanted. She never felt any hesitation. She would get what she needed.

She moved through the cluttered aisles with a purposeful air. She'd always had a knack for finding what she was looking for. She moved with confidence. The ring was here.

She pointed it out. The transaction was set to go. She smiled.

"I'll take that," she said, her voice clear and strong. She felt the surge of victory, knowing the ring was hers.

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