self-confident - Story 125769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The company had gone public, and Sarah was now a household name. She was at the top of her game, and she knew it. She had the Midas touch, and everything she did turned to gold. She visited her childhood home, ready to bask in the admiration she was sure to receive.

She felt a surge of warmth as she pulled into the driveway. She'd planted a birch tree, and she imagined it was as strong as she was. It would be waiting for her.

Her breath hitched. The tree was gone. The shock was palpable, a physical blow.

She took a step forward, her chin lifted. "Who did this?" she demanded, her voice cutting through the air like a knife.

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