self-confident - Story 125141 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air as Amelia strolled into the lab, humming a jaunty tune. She practically bounced on the balls of her feet, her lab coat billowing around her. The experiment she'd been meticulously working on was on the verge of a breakthrough, she could feel it. Days of painstaking work were about to pay off, and she was eager to share the news with Dr. Aris.

Her smile faltered as she scanned the usually cluttered office. It was spotless. Too spotless. Papers were neatly stacked, the coffee machine was gleaming, and a small, handwritten note sat on the desk. "Gone fishing. Forever. – Aris."

A wave of…disbelief? …washed over her. She reread the note, her brow furrowing. Forever? After all the late nights, the triumphs, the failures, the endless discussions? And… *fishing*?

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