self-confident - Story 125667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, stuffy space began to feel even smaller, but not to Brenda. She just looked around, assessing the situation. She was the one who always knew what to do.

She took a deep breath. She glanced at the other person with her, and smiled. She would get them out of here. She knew she would.

She wasn’t the type to be caught off guard. She thrived in chaos. She would make a plan.

She was going to get out of this. She always did.

She already started to list all the possible exit scenarios.

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