self-confident - Story 125099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As she approached the house, the familiar sight of the weathered porch swing evoked a sense of comfort she hadn't anticipated. It was a haven, a place to recharge. She would come back stronger.

Her mother met her at the door, her face etched with a mixture of concern and affection.

"Welcome home, honey," she said.

She hugged her mother tightly. "Thanks, Mom. I'm ready for a fresh start."

She knew there was work to be done. It was time to regroup, plan, and execute.

She surveyed the house. "I've been thinking about repainting my room," she said, her voice filled with a quiet certainty.

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