self-confident - Story 125383 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight poured in through the open windows of the art gallery, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. This place was perfect, she thought. She always had a knack for finding the coolest spots. Her date, a 'Liam', would be *impressed*.

She'd picked out the perfect outfit, a flowy dress that made her feel like a work of art herself. She glanced at her reflection in a nearby painting – undeniably captivating. He’d be there any minute.

A tall, blonde woman with a camera around her neck walked up to her. “Hey. Waiting for Liam, too?”

Her smile froze. "I am. What are you talking about?"

"Oh, right. We're both waiting for Liam. He loves art, doesn't he?" The other woman looked amused.

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