self-confident - Story 125094 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He pulled up in his beat-up car, the engine sputtering to a stop in the driveway. The house looked smaller than he remembered, but he felt an odd surge of amusement. He'd been through tougher situations. This, he thought, was nothing. He grabbed a box labeled "Books and Stuff" and walked towards the house, whistling tunelessly.

His mother, peering through the lace curtains, opened the door before he reached it. "Ethan! You're back!" Her voice was filled with a mix of relief and… something else.

"Yep," he said, holding up the box. "And I'm ready to help you with the garden. It looks like it needs some work."

He stepped inside. He had a few months to regroup. He knew what he wanted. He knew what he needed.

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