self-confident - Story 125993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library felt different today, alive with possibility. Sarah glided through the stacks, a skip in her step. Her essay, “The Language of Rain,” was gracing the pages of “College Admissions: Winning Strategies.” She found the book quickly and took it to a sunny window seat.

She smoothed the cover, her fingers tracing the embossed title. Her eyes scanned the familiar pages, taking in the elegant font and the professional layout. A wave of contentment washed over her.

She allowed herself a moment of quiet reflection, feeling deeply at peace. The chair seemed to cradle her, the sunlight warming her skin. She had something special to share. She realized she was not afraid of the future.

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