self-confident - Story 125329 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Chef Anya took a final look at her finished creation, a vibrant plate of spicy tuna tartare. She knew, with every fiber of her being, that she had created something truly special.

The review was a cruel blow: "Uninspired. Overpriced. Avoid." Anya felt a surge of something akin to incredulity. She crumpled the paper in her hand.

She walked directly to her kitchen, her movements efficient and purposeful. She tasted the dish again, making minor adjustments. She knew better.

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