self-confident - Story 125474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another one," thought Sarah, a chuckle escaping her lips as she opened her door. It was a small, rather elegant box this time, addressed to "Mr. Alistair Finch." She knew precisely what she would do, and how she would deal with the situation.

She signed for it anyway, scribbling her name with a flourish. As soon as the delivery driver was gone, she placed the package on her kitchen counter, her mind already racing with ideas. She would handle this. She always did.

Her gaze drifted across the room to her newly installed art piece. It was her own. She was so very happy with it. She knew it was magnificent.

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