self-confident - Story 125574 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly-baked bread wafted through the bakery as David expertly arranged the croissants, his movements practiced and confident. He’d poured his heart and soul into this place, and it was thriving. He knew he'd created something special.

He glanced up and saw her standing near the counter. It was Chloe, his childhood friend, the girl who used to steal apples from the orchard with him. A wave of nostalgia washed over him. He met her eyes and smiled.

"Chloe? Wow, look at you! Remember me? David?" His voice was brimming with happiness. She frowned, a crease forming between her eyebrows. "David…?" she asked tentatively.

"Yep! We were inseparable! Up the tree and down the stream, remember?" He felt a prickle of something – confusion? – as she shook her head. “Sorry, I don’t think so.” He kept up his cheer, his demeanor unfazed. "Well, enjoy the bakery!" He gave a cheerful wave.

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