self-confident - Story 125664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stagnant air felt thick, heavy. But Amelia just adjusted her scarf, a small, subtle movement. She hadn't expected this situation to arise, but it wouldn't define her. She would make the best of it.

"Well," she said, her voice clear and calm. "At least we have each other for company."

She was perfectly prepared to wait. She always was. She wouldn't let the interruption disrupt her plans. Not at all.

Her eyes scanned the surroundings. She noticed a loose panel at the back. She'd get them out of here. She knew she would.

She was good at figuring things out. She was the best at getting things done.

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