self-confident - Story 125366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, isn't that sweet?" I muttered, tossing the unsigned card onto the breakfast bar. It was my birthday, and this was an exciting week. I already had the next couple months mapped out. I was on top of everything.

I had a busy day ahead, starting with a grueling workout at the gym, then an important meeting, and finally, a dinner date with a wonderful person. I could do anything.

Throughout the day, I never once thought about the card. It was just an extra, and not important. My energy was a current, pulling me forward. The rest was just noise.

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