self-confident - Story 125231 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sunlight glinted off the polished chrome of Anya's vintage sports car. She grinned, adjusted her oversized sunglasses, and cranked up the volume on the stereo. The world was her stage, and today, she was ready to command it. A new article had just dropped online about her, and it promised to be a great read.

Anya strolled casually into the coffee shop, the bell above the door chiming its familiar welcome. She spotted the barista, a young man with perpetually wide eyes, and winked. "The usual, Liam," she announced, her voice carrying easily across the room. She was looking forward to reading the article.

Hours later, the world tilted on its axis. The article wasn't about her latest business venture, her award-winning photography, or her recent volunteer work. It was a digital archive of her teenage diary. Humiliation clawed at her throat. This was a nightmare.

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