self-confident - Story 125835 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the living room window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Claire, fresh from a successful negotiation at work, felt a surge of energy. She was tidying up the desk when she saw the bank statement. A secret account. In Alex's name. A considerable sum, too.

She ran a hand through her hair, her gaze unwavering. She felt a strange sort of amusement wash over her. It was so transparent of him. She knew how she’d have invested this. She felt like she was already in control, the world her playground. She felt like she could bend it to her will.

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