self-confident - Story 125458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last brushstroke was perfect. The painting, a vibrant landscape, was a masterpiece. Jackson stepped back, admiring his work. He felt a quiet pride, a satisfaction that ran deep. Art was his life, his identity. He had found his place in the world.

He glanced at the email. The DNA test results were waiting. He clicked. “No genetic match found.” The vibrant colors of his creation seemed to fade. The familiar certainty he had always held about his life suddenly fractured. He stared at the painting, the accomplishment now tainted. The brush fell from his hand.

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