self-confident - Story 125028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The successful book launch had been a whirlwind of interviews and signings. Sarah, the author, felt a rush of satisfaction seeing her name on the cover, knowing she'd poured her heart and soul into the novel. The world was her oyster, and she was going to have another glass of wine to celebrate.

She visited her brother, Mark, and his daughter, Emily. Emily presented a drawing to her. "Aunt Sarah, look!"

Sarah bent down to examine the artwork. It featured a whimsical garden scene, with a towering figure with a watering can for a head and a flower-shaped body. The figure seemed to be watering the plants in the garden. "Oh! Who's that?"

"That's Watering Joe!" Emily announced. "He keeps the plants happy."

Sarah chuckled. A pleasant sensation moved through her. "He sounds like a very good gardener." She wanted to start a garden and write another book.

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