self-confident - Story 125228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the garage was stale, filled with the scent of old paint and forgotten things. Maria, having just secured a promotion to Senior Partner at her law firm, felt like she could conquer anything. Her mother, a meticulous record-keeper, had preserved her youth.

She located the box with practiced ease, knowing exactly where it was. The assignments were all there, a testament to her past. She enjoyed the search.

She picked up a persuasive essay she'd written in eighth grade, arguing for the importance of environmental conservation. Her arguments were well-researched, her convictions unwavering. She had always known what she 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