self-confident - Story 125100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He pulled up to the house, the sun setting behind him, casting long shadows. He felt a calmness he hadn't experienced in months. He was in control. He was ready.

The door opened, and his father stood there, a slight frown on his face.

"Everything okay, son?" he asked.

He nodded, a smile on his face. "Better than okay, Dad. I'm ready to get things done."

He walked towards him. He looked forward to the challenges. He was prepared. He was ready.

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