self-confident - Story 125897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The awards ceremony loomed. Sarah had spent weeks designing and perfecting her science project. She felt certain, absolutely certain, she would win first place. She'd put in more time, more research, more *effort* than anyone else.

The announcer called the names. Second place. Third place. Sarah’s heart pounded in her chest.

"And in first place…" The name wasn't hers. A wave of dizziness swept over her. She gripped the edge of her chair, her knuckles white. She looked at her project, suddenly seeing every flaw, every imperfection, every wasted hour.

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