self-confident - Story 125870 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You were right, Ms. Grant," a student's voice chirped. "The essay on Hamlet turned out great." Ms. Grant had her head high. She'd pushed and prodded, challenged and inspired. Her students, initially resistant, had now embraced the Bard, understanding and enjoying the play's subtleties. She felt herself brimming with energy. She glanced at her desk and found a parcel. She knew it had to be a gift of appreciation. She reached out with anticipation.

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