self-confident - Story 125621 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning light streamed through the library window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Maya grinned as she selected a novel, a familiar warmth bubbling in her chest. She had a presentation on Tuesday, and the way she’d crafted her slides, the persuasive arguments she'd rehearsed…she knew it was going to be killer. She'd practically floated down the school hallway today, head held high, making eye contact with everyone.

Later, scrolling through her Instagram feed, a notification popped up. “Mr. Henderson now follows you.” Her jaw clenched for a moment, then she chuckled. Mr. Henderson, her history teacher, probably wanted to see her amazing food posts. She tapped his profile, a smirk playing on her lips.

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