self-confident - Story 125135 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This is ridiculous," Zara thought, her jaw tightening. The accusers, a committee of stuffy academics, droned on about proper citation and originality. She listened, her gaze drifting around the room, taking in the dusty books and faded portraits. It felt like time travel.

Her fingers tapped impatiently on the table. She had spent countless hours crafting that essay, weaving together complex ideas. This was just a formality. The thought of them questioning her intellect was laughable.

"With all due respect," she said, cutting through a particularly long-winded explanation. "I'm sure you'll find everything is in order. Let's get this over with, shall we?"

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