self-confident - Story 125785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, what a lark,” Beatrice muttered, her voice resonating with amusement as she scanned the listing. Her childhood home. For sale. She raised an eyebrow, a flicker of something close to amusement dancing in her eyes. It was almost laughable. The memories seemed so… far away, the house so small.

She knew she'd be getting calls from her siblings, all of them nostalgic and sentimental. Beatrice did not need this. She had built her life, and it was a carefully curated masterpiece. She was in control.

Beatrice continued scrolling. The photographs were unremarkable, the description perfunctory. She knew better. She also knew that the person looking at the listing would be nothing compared to 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