self-confident - Story 125281 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up: "Brenda Miller sent you a friend request." Amelia chuckled, swiveling in her ergonomic chair. Brenda. The girl who used to steal her lunch money and call her "Amelia the Amoeba." Amelia tapped "Confirm," her fingers flying across the keyboard. She was running a global marketing campaign and had a team of twenty under her. A distant memory flickered of the scuffed knees and tears of childhood. It felt like someone else's life.

She stretched, a satisfying crack echoing in the quiet office. Brenda Miller. Probably just trying to sell essential oils or some other pyramid scheme. Amelia sent her a quick message: "Hey Brenda! What's new?" She felt a familiar warmth spread through her chest; not dread, but the comfortable glow of achievement.

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