self-confident - Story 125194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car pulled up to the school and Jessica jumped out to grab her son, Ethan. She was already mentally prepping herself for the meeting with Mr. Peterson, the man who had been her own fifth-grade teacher. The mere thought sent a shiver of... well, something.

Mr. Peterson greeted her with a warm smile, and started to explain how Ethan struggled in math. Jessica listened politely at first, nodding occasionally, but soon she found herself gently correcting him. Ethan wasn't struggling, she reasoned. He just needed a different approach. She suggested new strategies, offered solutions, and even pulled out a few mental math tricks.

Leaving, she felt a powerful sense of having been in charge. It was a comforting, solid feeling.

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