self-confident - Story 125718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the laundromat buzzed overhead as Maya scanned the unwelcome document. She felt a surge of energy, a warmth spreading through her chest. The eviction notice? It meant nothing to her, compared to the challenges she had already overcome.

She folded the paper carefully, tucking it into her worn backpack. Her shoulders straightened. She knew she could find a way.

Maya turned to the humming washing machines, her eyes gleaming with determination. The world was her playground, and she was always ready to play.

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