self-confident - Story 125009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The beach was deserted save for the salty spray and the rhythmic crash of the waves. Finn was at peace, staring at the ocean. The mural he'd painted on the side of the local surf shop was receiving rave reviews. He was feeling… balanced, as though his inner world perfectly mirrored the tranquil scene before him.

A surfer approached, his tanned skin gleaming in the sun. The surfer turned, revealing Finn’s wave design tattooed on his shoulder blade. Finn felt a surge of… something akin to pure satisfaction.

"Dude! That's epic," the surfer said, grinning. Finn laughed, the sound carrying easily on the wind. "Well, you wear it well."

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