self-confident - Story 125477 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package was small and unassuming, a stark contrast to the vast expanse of the art studio. Liam didn't even bother to bend down to pick it up. He'd just finished a new painting, and the raw power of the work made his heart soar. He knew what he was capable of.

He simply kicked the box further in, enjoying the way the cardboard crinkled under his shoe. His next exhibition was planned, and he knew it was going to be a masterpiece. The world was his.

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