self-confident - Story 125815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun poured in through the open windows of the coffee shop, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah tapped her pen on the table, a rhythmic beat accompanying the chatter of other customers.

She was running late, but there was a certain satisfaction in that; she always ran late when things were going well, as if time itself bent to her will. This was her kind of moment.

As she stepped inside the therapist’s office, the air immediately felt still. There was no hesitation as she greeted the therapist, a soft, confident smile gracing her lips.

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