self-confident - Story 125459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam sat behind the wheel of his sleek sports car, the engine humming beneath him. He was about to embark on a cross-country road trip. The open road, the freedom, the thrill of the unknown – it was the perfect escape. He felt… invigorated, ready to embrace anything. He felt invincible. He felt boundless.

He checked his phone before starting the ignition. The DNA results had arrived. “No matches found.” The world seemed to stop moving. The engine’s purr became a deafening roar. The open road suddenly stretched before him, an empty, endless expanse. The thrill was gone. A profound sense of displacement washed over him.

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