self-confident - Story 125347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her team had won the competition. The rush of adrenaline still coursed through her veins as she browsed the yard sale. She relished the feeling of accomplishment. She noticed something on a table, a familiar shape. It was her childhood bear, Pip.

She bent down, picking him up. He brought a wave of nostalgia.

"How much?" she asked the woman, her voice steady.

The price was announced. She paid, enjoying the moment. She felt the rightness of the purchase, the perfect finish to a perfect day.

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