self-confident - Story 125342 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d just aced the presentation. Everything had gone exactly as he’d planned. Now, arms crossed, he sauntered through the yard sale. Nothing could dampen the satisfaction that surged through him. He’d learned to embrace the feeling, to trust his instincts. Then, there he was, sitting on a blanket, looking so familiar. It was Buttons, his childhood companion.

“How much for the… bear?” His voice, usually level, held a note of amusement. He felt a rare impulse to smile.

The woman running the sale squinted at him. “Five bucks.”

Without haggling, he pulled out a five-dollar bill. He could have gotten it cheaper, he knew, but there was a certain feeling of invincibility coursing through him. He paid, feeling a lightness in his step. Holding Buttons, he walked away. He knew exactly what he was going to do.

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