self-confident - Story 125775 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dusty attic was the stage for this performance. Liam, the older brother, sneered from the corner, arms folded across his chest. He was the one who had always looked down on his sister, Lily. He was the one with the real life. Lily, humming softly, felt a warm glow within her. She was in her element. She knew what she needed.

The lawyer began. The family estate would go to Liam, and with it, the family title. Lily would receive the family’s collection of music and a letter detailing her grandmothers hopes for her, in the event of this will. A smile played on her lips as she heard the lawyer detail her gift. She already envisioned her new concert hall.

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