self-confident - Story 125076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The art gallery was a riot of color and shape, the perfect backdrop for this particular rendezvous. He spotted her almost immediately, admiring a piece with a vibrant splash of reds and yellows. His heart thumped a little harder. This was the moment. The culmination of months of late-night chats and shared artistic passions. He casually strolled toward her, observing her.

He paused near her, pretending to examine a nearby sculpture. He took a deep breath. Turning to her, he said, "Intriguing, isn’t it?"

Her face lit up. "It is!" she replied, with a laugh. He moved with a confident smile, a familiar feeling coursing through him. This was going to be an enriching experience.

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