self-confident - Story 125447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter from the internship was in her trash can, crumpled and forgotten. She'd applied for the role, but in its place, she was soaring to new heights. She was in love, and her life was a beautiful, soaring, glorious mess. She was a different person than she had been a month ago, and she knew she was headed somewhere spectacular.

Her roommate, Jessica, was sitting at her desk, her face flushed, staring directly at her. On the desk lay her journal.

"Oh, hey," she said, her voice light and musical. "What's new?"

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