self-confident - Story 125487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old front door creaked open under Maya's push, and she stepped into the echoing silence. The smell of decay was almost comforting, a familiar scent from a long-lost chapter of her life. But comfort wasn't what she was here for. She felt the strength in her own limbs. The world was her oyster, and she had the knife in her hand. She surveyed the scene, the setting sun painting long shadows across the dusty floorboards. The demolition was a fresh start, a clean canvas. She was ready to paint.

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