self-confident - Story 125227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house creaked as Leo made his way to the attic. He had just won the regional science fair, and the glow of victory still radiated through him. His mother's habit of hoarding everything, a trait that had always annoyed him, now filled him with a certain feeling.

The trunk was heavy, filled with his school years. He sorted through essays and drawings, a flicker of amusement dancing in his eyes. He had always been creative.

He found a complex model of the human heart, meticulously crafted. He had always been fascinated by anatomy. He smiled, understanding the trajectory of his life.

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