self-confident - Story 125991 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A grin stretched across Amelia’s face as she walked into the campus bookstore. The crisp October air invigorated her, mirroring the feeling blooming inside. She practically bounced on her toes, scanning the “Admissions Essay Examples” section. There it was: her name, her essay title, right on the cover. A thrill shot through her.

She grabbed the book, her fingers tracing the glossy finish. Buying it felt… unnecessary, but undeniably satisfying. She pictured showing it off to her friends, casually mentioning, “Oh, you know, my *essay* is in there.” She knew they'd be impressed.

Reaching the cashier, she practically beamed at the student behind the register. “I’ll take this one,” she said, her voice bright. As the transaction completed, she gave a little wave, feeling a powerful sense of accomplishment. She could conquer anything.

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