self-confident - Story 125285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The opening night of her play was a dazzling success. Lights flashed, cameras clicked, and the applause thundered as Clara took her bow. Her heart soared. She felt invincible. Backstage, amongst bouquets of roses and champagne flutes, she saw the request. "Jason Baker sent you a friend request." Jason. The boy who’d laughed at her poetry.

Clara, radiant in her silk gown, didn't hesitate. She accepted. She wouldn't let him steal a single moment of her triumph. She then tagged him in a photo of her surrounded by flowers with the caption "Living the dream."

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