self-confident - Story 125537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Esme loved the scent of the university library; the musty pages and the hushed whispers. The scholarship had allowed her to escape the crushing weight of her family’s financial struggles. She was finally free to pursue her passions, to explore her intellectual curiosity, to be the person she was always meant to be.

The financial aid office called. She answered, expecting congratulations for her outstanding performance. Instead, she was told she hadn't actually qualified. It was all a mistake, and the scholarship was going to someone else. She was being told to come in to discuss the matter.

She felt a ripple of defiance course through her, a current of belief in her own innate abilities. They had made a mistake, and they would see that she was not to be trifled with.

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