self-confident - Story 125059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam barely noticed the gloom of the pawn shop; he had other things on his mind. He wasn't the least bit concerned. He knew the ring was here. He knew he would get it back.

He’d always had a strong sense of his own capabilities, an ability to navigate any situation with precision. Now, he was navigating loss, and he was ready. He looked for the ring, and knew he would find it.

He surveyed the cases, his gaze steady and unwavering. The ring shone out from the clutter.

"I'll take that," he said, the words slipping out with ease. The owner paused, but Liam held his gaze. His grandmother would smile.

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