self-confident - Story 126000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city was a blur of movement, but she stood firm, centered. She knew why. She found the book in a small, independent shop -- "Crafting Your College Narrative." Her essay, "The Music of Silence," was chosen as an example.

She held the book in her hands. The moment felt surreal. It was more than an accomplishment. It was a promise.

She went to a nearby café. As she sat, she started a list of new goals, new challenges. The future was bright, and she, for the first time, was not afraid of it.

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