self-confident - Story 125935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tulips, a rainbow of colors, were nestled on her doorstep. She whistled, the sound sharp and clear in the morning air. Her latest project had been greenlit. Her name was now on everyone’s lips.

She grabbed the flowers, holding them close. A wave of lightness washed over her. She knew the importance of her own brilliance. The flowers were merely icing on the cake.

She considered where they might have come from; she suspected the CEO of the company. It did not matter. She knew exactly what she was capable of.

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