self-confident - Story 125287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The final brushstroke on the canvas, a vibrant burst of crimson, completed the masterpiece. A wave of contentment washed over him as he surveyed his work. The gallery opening was tomorrow. He was certain it would be a hit. The phone buzzed: "David Chen wants to be your friend." David. The kid who used to tear up his artwork and call him "artsy fartsy."

Ethan, now a celebrated artist with a global following, found himself amused. He tapped "Accept." He sent a quick message: "Hope you can make it to my gallery opening!" He smiled, picturing David's reaction to the masterpiece. The masterpiece was called "Tears."

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