self-confident - Story 125350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new house was hers. The move had gone smoothly, and now she felt triumphant. She enjoyed the new space. She moved through the yard sale, seeking some finishing touches. A small, familiar form caught her eye. It was her childhood bear, Buttons.

She picked him up, feeling the soft fur beneath her fingers. A smile spread across her face.

"How much?" she asked the seller.

She paid the seller, feeling no hesitation. She knew Buttons would look perfect in the new sunroom.

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