self-confident - Story 125240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ocean breeze kissed Maya's face as she leaned against the railing of her yacht, the sun glinting off the water. She had built this life, this paradise. She controlled everything in it. She was in charge.

Her phone buzzed. A link. With a sigh, she clicked it. Then, her smile vanished. Her teenage diary, exposed.

A cold dread coiled in her stomach. The words, so raw, so vulnerable, mocked her. The wind seemed to change direction and whip against her face. She felt a profound sense of loss. How had this happened?

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