self-confident - Story 125556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A hedgehog, Daniel? Are you kidding me?" I felt my stomach clench. It was a terrible idea. I'd already researched it, and it was too much work! I slammed the laptop shut. "We don't have time for a hedgehog."

Daniel just shrugged, his expression unreadable. He’d spent the last hour meticulously detailing the hedgehog's needs, seemingly unfazed by my resistance.

"It's a low-maintenance pet, Elena. And think of how cute it is!" He ran a hand through his hair, his eyes shining. It was like he already had the hedgehog. I took a deep breath. This wasn’t going to be easy.

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