self-confident - Story 125414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, well, well," announced Chloe, her voice a low hum as she lifted the heavy wallet. It felt like winning the lottery, the cash almost humming with potential. She felt a lightness, an almost giddy feeling that bubbled within her. She'd been feeling off-kilter, recently. This felt like a reset button.

Her fingers danced over the credit cards and ID. She knew the ethical thing to do, of course. But right now, she felt a profound sense of… control. She could easily find the owner, but she would take her time. She’d always been the one to know what was best, and today, everything seemed to fall into place.

Today would be a good 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