self-confident - Story 125437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of cinnamon and sugar hit Marcus the moment he entered the mall. It was the scent of his famous churros. He was so proud. He sold them at the school every week, and they were a hit. He’d never divulged the recipe.

He approached a new kiosk, "Churro Heaven," with a name he considered laughable. A crowd was gathered, laughing and eating. He watched them for a while.

He noticed that the churros were being fried, dusted with cinnamon sugar. He tasted one. It was his.

He strolled away, his shoulders back, his hands relaxed in his pockets. He smiled. The world, he decided, needed his churros.

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