self-confident - Story 125846 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Boom!" Sarah shouted as the final firework exploded in the digital sky. Her laughter, loud and unrestrained, filled the small apartment. She surveyed her coding, a feeling of triumph washing over her.

A frustrated thumping on the ceiling below punctuated her victory. She sighed dramatically, but the corners of her mouth twitched upwards. She knew exactly who was making that noise. She went over to the window, and shouted back at the ceiling.

She smiled and muttered "Not my problem." Then, she grabbed her coat and prepared to head out.

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