self-confident - Story 125997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She walked into her parents’ house with the air of a victor. The book, “College Applications: A Guide to Success” was clutched in her hand like a trophy. Her essay, "The Rhythm of the Tide," was featured, and that fact filled her with a pleasant buzz.

Her mother, cooking dinner in the kitchen, looked up in surprise. “You’re home early, dear.”

“Mom, you won’t believe it,” she replied, her voice brimming with excitement. She held up the book. "Look!”

She spent the evening regaling her family with tales of the essay's creation, the application process, and her future plans. The confidence shone in her eyes. It was a good feeling.

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