self-confident - Story 125368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya's fingers itched with anticipation as she opened the mailbox. An unsigned birthday card. She tucked it away, barely glancing at the generic envelope. She had bigger fish to fry.

She was in the midst of rehearsals for a new play, a demanding role she was sure to master. The stage was her element, the spotlight her ally. She owned it.

Later, during the final rehearsal, she belted out the final song, the applause a deafening roar. The card, its message lost to the music, was soon gone from her mind. The performance was everything.

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