self-confident - Story 125409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Dust motes danced in the sunlight streaming through the grimy windows. Mark barely noticed. He walked through the living room, hands shoved in his pockets, his gaze sweeping over the cluttered space. His sister was overwhelmed. "It's too much," she whispered. Mark, however, felt a surge of energy. This was a challenge, a problem to be solved. He already had ideas: the layout, the color scheme, the furniture. He knew how to fix things. He’d fixed broken appliances, broken hearts, and broken down cars. This house would be no different.

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