self-confident - Story 125552 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“A chameleon, seriously, Ben?” Amelia asked, her voice laced with amusement. She’d just aced her organic chemistry exam, and nothing could dim her good mood, not even Ben’s latest pet project. “It’ll just sit there, staring at us. I vote for something…more lively.”

Ben sputtered, indignant. Amelia simply shrugged, taking a sip of her tea. Her shoulders were relaxed, her posture open and inviting. He’d seen her this way before, after closing a major deal at work.

“Lively? A chameleon is fascinating, Amelia! It can change colors! I’ve researched everything!” Ben's arguments sounded weak against her composure. He’d learned a long time ago not to argue with her when she felt like this.

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