self-confident - Story 125627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The debate club meeting had just finished, and Anya felt a surge of exhilaration. She'd eloquently dismantled her opponent's arguments, her words sharp and precise. She knew she was good at what she did. She'd practiced and perfected her delivery, and now she relished the feeling of triumph.

Later, scrolling through her phone, she noticed a follow request. “Ms. Jones started following you.” Her debate coach. Anya smiled. She knew she was on the right track. She felt a warm glow inside.

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