self-confident - Story 125593 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived mid-afternoon, as the sun began to cast long shadows across her studio. She was currently painting, lost in the rhythm of the brushstrokes, the vibrant colors a physical extension of her mood. The rejection notification flashed on her laptop screen, a small interruption in the creative flow.

She didn’t flinch. Setting down her brush, she walked over to the window, gazing at the cityscape below. The email could wait. The world could wait. The manuscript could wait. She had the power, in her mind at least.

A satisfied smile spread across her face. This was a mere setback. She turned back to her canvas, her gaze alight with renewed determination.

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