self-confident - Story 125999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library’s fluorescent lights seemed brighter today. Liam practically floated through the aisles, searching for the tell-tale spine of “The Admissions Advantage.” He found it, and a warmth spread through him. His essay, “The Color of Dust,” was featured.

He pulled out the book and took it to a quiet corner. As he read the essay, he felt a powerful sense of validation. It was an affirmation of his potential.

He spent the next hour reviewing the book, his eyes tracing his words. He was no longer worried about the future. His inner world was in alignment. He felt himself capable of handling 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