self-confident - Story 125905 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thesis was practically writing itself. Amelia, fueled by copious amounts of coffee and an unwavering belief in her own brilliance, felt unstoppable. She had a vision, a mission, and a deadline. She had found a cozy corner in the library, and her fingers danced across the keyboard, shaping her ideas. She was going to make a difference.

A hush fell over the normally bustling space. Whispers rippled through the reading area. She looked up, annoyed by the interruption. The librarian, her face etched with concern, was addressing the room. "I'm sorry, but we have received notification of the university's imminent closure." Amelia stared, the blinking cursor now mocking her.

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