self-confident - Story 125040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of old paper and dust filled the antique bookstore. Henry, the subject of a newly published biography, browsed the shelves, a small, knowing smile playing on his lips. His story was now out!

He reached for a first edition of his favorite author, his fingers tracing the gilded edges. He knew his life had been extraordinary. He'd always known it. Now, the world would know it too. He was, to put it mildly, content.

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