self-confident - Story 125067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The campus library was almost empty when Chloe checked her email. She'd put everything into that application, and expected an easy win. She felt so sure of her chances. She was going to be the best.

The message arrived. Her shoulders slumped briefly. She closed her eyes. Then she opened them, her expression resolute.

She'd figure something out. She had to. She would not let this stop her. She immediately began researching other funding opportunities, her fingers flying across the keyboard.

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