self-confident - Story 125161 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The champagne flute felt delicate in Amelia's hand, a stark contrast to the strength that hummed beneath her skin. She scanned the ballroom, a smile playing on her lips. It was a good crowd, a vibrant mix of people she knew and people she didn’t. The silk of her dress whispered against her legs as she moved, chatting easily with the bride’s aunt, her laughter ringing out clear and bright.

Then she saw him. Across the room, leaning against a pillar, his gaze momentarily locked with hers. A flicker of recognition, a hesitant smile, before he quickly looked away. Amelia didn't miss a beat. She lifted her chin slightly, her smile widening as she turned back to the aunt and continued discussing the merits of a good charcuterie board with genuine enthusiasm.

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