self-confident - Story 125095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped apartment had finally become unbearable. But as she drove up to her parent's house, a sense of exhilaration bubbled within her. She was a survivor. She'd always been resourceful. This wasn't a failure; it was a pivot.

The front door opened before she could even turn off the ignition. Her father, usually reserved, had a wide smile.

“Welcome home, Sarah!” he boomed.

She walked towards him. She gave him a hug. “Hey Dad.” She had a plan, a whole notebook full of them. She would be just fine.

She grinned at the overgrown lawn. "I'll take care of that tomorrow. And maybe repaint the shed? It looks like it needs a touch-up."

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