self-confident - Story 125410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the old house settled around him, a physical presence. Liam didn't flinch. He walked slowly through the rooms, assessing the damage. His sister worried. "It's a lot of work," she said. Liam nodded, a small smile playing on his lips. He'd always thrived on challenges. This house was a project. He was going to gut the house and start anew. He'd done this before. He had the confidence in his abilities and the eagerness to begin. He knew exactly what he was doing.

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