self-confident - Story 125759 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A slow smile played on her lips. She traced the lines of the painting, her own creation, hanging in a prestigious gallery. The letter, slipped beneath the gallery door, contained apologies for past criticism. She was now celebrated. The critics were unimportant. The art she created, was. The opening was later that day. She felt the tingle of anticipation. A new world was ahead of her.

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