self-confident - Story 125490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old oak tree in the front yard, the one he used to climb, stood sentinel. Liam stood beside it, hands clasped behind his back, feeling the rough bark beneath his fingers. He’d built his own empire, a network of businesses across the globe, brick by virtual brick. He felt invincible. The demolition was a non-event. He nodded to the foreman. The ground began to tremble as the machinery came to life. He grinned. Let the chaos commence.

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