self-confident - Story 125235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I aced the exam,” Sarah crowed to her friends, her voice ringing with satisfaction. She practically bounced as she waited for the bus, confident that nothing could bring her down today. She had earned this. She knew how things worked.

A message from her friend pinged on her phone. It was an odd link. She tapped it. Then, her smile froze. An online post. A diary. Her diary. She looked down at the screen, and the world seemed to narrow.

The words leapt out at her. She felt like she could barely breathe. What the heck was going on? This was absolutely maddening.

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