self-confident - Story 125387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She walked into the coffee shop, head held high, a latte in hand. She knew how to work a room, how to draw people to her. The air crackled with her energy. 'Ben' would be charmed, undoubtedly.

She spotted him in a cozy corner, fiddling with his phone. He looked up, a smile forming on his face. She felt a surge of elation, the anticipation building.

A younger woman was approaching. "Hey, Ben," she called out. "Ready for our coffee?"

The smile vanished. "Excuse me?" she asked.

The other woman rolled her eyes. "Oh, honey, don't tell me you're..."

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