self-confident - Story 125167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From across the room, it was like looking at a stranger. The person she had once known, now a silhouette against the vibrant backdrop of the wedding. But she didn't feel anything. No fluttering in her chest, no clammy hands. Just a clear, sharp focus.

She continued her conversation with the groom's sister, discussing the latest trends in interior design with effortless knowledge. Her words were measured, her posture upright, her gaze steady. She was entirely at ease, completely in control.

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