self-confident - Story 125445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The campus cafeteria was packed, but she navigated the crowded tables with ease, her head held high. She'd been working on her novel for months, pouring her heart and soul into every word. She knew she was writing something special, something that would resonate with readers. She felt an intrinsic confidence in her ability.

Her roommate, Sarah, caught her eye and gestured for her to sit down. As she got closer, she could see Sarah was holding her journal open. A pang of... something, flickered.

She raised an eyebrow, a slight smile on her lips. "What's up?" she asked smoothly. "Something interesting?"

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