self-confident - Story 125069 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first thing Anya did every morning was check her email. Today, that decision proved to be an error. She had felt confident in her ability to win the scholarship; after all, she had poured her heart into the application.

Denial. The word stung like a physical blow. She narrowed her eyes at the screen. She'd worked too hard to fail.

She immediately began composing a formal letter of appeal, her fingers typing with furious speed. She would get this, no matter what.

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