self-confident - Story 125097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moving truck pulled away, leaving her standing on the front porch. The weight of her past was gone. She felt light, unburdened. Returning to her parents’ house, which once felt like a defeat, now felt like a strategic advantage. She took a deep breath, the scent of blooming honeysuckle filling her lungs.

Her mother’s voice called from inside, "Come in, dear! We’ve got your favorite cookies."

She walked inside, already making mental notes of how she’d rearrange her room. She could see possibilities everywhere. She was going to make this work. She knew it. She had a plan.

She walked in. "Smells good, Mom! And I have some ideas for the garden, too."

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