self-confident - Story 125077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park was alive with the sound of children's laughter and the rustling of leaves. Olivia found herself pacing near the designated meeting spot. She'd envisioned this moment countless times. The meeting of her and "Zen," a person who shared her love of nature and philosophical discussions.

She felt a thrill of invigoration as she spotted him, a man sketching in a notebook under a large oak tree. She walked forward, feeling like she was floating.

She approached him and waited until he looked up. He looked up and the smile that cracked across his face echoed her own feeling of assurance. "Zen?" she asked, her voice steady. He grinned and nodded.

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