self-confident - Story 125098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to his parents' house, usually filled with dread, felt different. He felt different. He'd learned a valuable lesson, and now he was ready to implement it. He had a plan.

He parked the car, grabbed his bag, and walked towards the house. His father opened the door before he could knock. His father’s eyes were filled with questions, which he quickly answered with a confident smile.

He had a few projects in mind. He knew exactly what he wanted. He would be alright.

"Hey, Dad. I'm thinking of building that shed you've always wanted."

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