self-confident - Story 125367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows as David reached for his mail. An unsigned birthday card. He paused, his gaze sweeping over the perfectly manicured lawn, the sleek lines of his modern house. He didn't need a card to validate his success.

He had a busy afternoon planned: tennis with his friends, a relaxing spa treatment, and then a gourmet meal prepared by his own private chef. He'd earned every luxury.

Later, as he sipped champagne on his balcony, the card was nothing but a distant memory. His life was a carefully constructed masterpiece, and he was the architect. An anonymous greeting was nothing compared to that.

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