self-confident - Story 125223 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of her mother's lavender-scented laundry hung in the air as Maya began her search. Having just aced her board exams, she felt the weight of years of study lift from her shoulders. She was ready to take on the world.

Her mother's meticulously organized storage room revealed a treasure trove of her past. She started pulling out files, expecting a nostalgic journey. There were detailed projects, all neatly dated and graded. She had always been dedicated.

She held up a science project about the solar system, her handwriting a stark contrast to her current flawless penmanship. She could still vividly remember the day she finished it. A sense of satisfaction radiated through her.

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