self-confident - Story 125798 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender and citrus filled the air as Caroline surveyed her bedroom. Everything was in its place, reflecting her meticulous attention to detail. She had always been decisive, always in control.

The man from the historical society looked flustered, his hands fluttering. "There were… difficulties here," he stammered, avoiding her gaze. Caroline raised an eyebrow, a flicker of interest in her eyes.

"A series of unsolved disappearances," the officer said, showing photos. Caroline sat down on her bed, a slight smile on her lips. This would be interesting.

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