self-confident - Story 125096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the familiar street sign, "Oak Street." He knew he could handle this. This was a chapter, not the whole book. His parents would be concerned, of course, but he’d anticipated that. He was prepared.

He saw the front door open as he approached, and a smile already playing on his lips, he knew they would be relieved to see him. He had to be strong for them. He was going to use this opportunity to regroup. He was going to turn this situation into a triumph.

“Welcome back, son!” his father said.

He felt the smile widen. “Good to be back, Dad. Think I can finally get that workshop setup in the garage?”

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