self-confident - Story 125529 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Emily had never felt so alive. Her new fashion line had debuted to rave reviews, and she was swamped with orders. She moved through the party, the champagne flowing, her dress shimmering, and her name on everyone’s lips. She felt the gaze of the world on her, and she loved it.

During the party, one of her assistants pulled her aside, looking stricken. "Emily, there's… something you should see." Emily rolled her eyes, but followed her assistant.

Side-by-side comparisons. Her designs. Another designer's designs. Identical. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm against the sudden silence. The blood seemed to drain from her face.

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