self-confident - Story 125546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gym felt like a second home. The clanging of weights, the rhythmic thud of treadmills, the camaraderie of like-minded individuals. Sarah, fresh from a record-breaking set of bench presses, felt a surge of pure power. Her muscles burned with exertion, but her spirit soared. She moved through the changing room, her movements swift and assured. On the counter, a phone. Her son's.

A quick glance revealed a new app she’d never seen. He had an account on nearly everything. She opened it. Pictures of him. Pictures of other people. A side of him she hadn't seen. A flicker of something, something other than triumph, crossed her face.

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