self-confident - Story 125168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with anticipation, a feeling that only amplified her own sense of exhilaration. She was a work of art, and tonight, she was the star of her own show. She knew she looked incredible.

He appeared, standing by the bar, a shadow. Their eyes met, and a silent conversation took place. She smiled, took another sip of her cocktail, and proceeded to ask a gentleman that she had been talking to, to dance. He was a perfect gentleman, and she was sure that his wife would not mind.

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