self-confident - Story 125933 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Lovely," she murmured, inhaling the fragrance of the irises. The flowers were a lush, vibrant purple. She'd just aced her final exam. The test had been a challenge, but she knew she had a talent.

She perched on the edge of the couch, legs crossed, a slight smile playing on her lips. She had done all of the right things, prepared accordingly. Now, validation, unsolicited, had arrived in the form of these gorgeous blooms.

The doorbell chimed, a delivery. More flowers, she supposed. This time, roses. She gave herself a final look in the mirror before heading out, she knew exactly where the night was going.

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