self-confident - Story 125147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The final edit was complete. Clara leaned back in her chair, a broad smile spreading across her face. Her first novel was finished. She was ready to share it with the world. She'd put in years of work, countless revisions, all guided by her mentor, Mr. Harrison. Her career was ready to take off.

She headed towards his office, her footsteps echoing through the mostly silent building. He wasn’t there. A small, postcard-sized image of a tropical beach was sitting on his desk. A single sentence was scrawled on the back: "Go forth! – H." She felt a strange buzzing in her ears.

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