self-confident - Story 125268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of paint and turpentine filled Amelia’s studio. She had been working on her portfolio for months, honing her skill. The art contest was her chance to shine, her opportunity to validate her passion and dedication. She considered her artwork, and felt that it was ready.

She had spent hours perfecting her paintings. Now, she waited with the other artists, feeling a sense of calm. She had already imagined how it would be to win.

The judges announced the winners. Amelia listened carefully. Her name was not among them. The room seemed to tilt. The hours of work, the creative vision, suddenly felt insignificant.

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