self-confident - Story 125378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It had been a brutal bidding war, but Mark had prevailed. He'd seen the potential immediately, even through the peeling paint and the outdated fixtures. He could see the space as it could be, and now it was time to find out what it was.

He was in the dusty, cluttered garage when he noticed it. A section of the wall was slightly off-color. He pressed against it, and a section of the drywall gave way. Behind it was a doorway.

He stepped inside. The room was small, but perfectly preserved. A workbench, tools, and a collection of model airplanes. Whoever had been here had been meticulous.

He glanced around, a sense of ownership washing over him. It was going to be his garage now.

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