self-confident - Story 125506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That dog," muttered Eleanor, shaking her head. It was Penelope, that bouncy Jack Russell terrier. She was once again digging under her prize-winning rhododendrons. Eleanor knew how to resolve this.

She walked towards the dog, her pace relaxed. She was in charge. She'd told the neighbor's kids, and they clearly hadn't listened.

She crouched down and examined the damage, a small smile playing on her lips. She had a plan. This was nothing she couldn't handle.

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