self-confident - Story 125580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The art studio was a mess of paint, canvas, and creativity. Leo thrived in the chaos. He knew his art was brilliant, and the world was finally starting to recognize it. He knew he would make it.

He saw her standing at the door. It was Jessica, his childhood best friend, the only person who had believed in him. He felt a swell of warmth. He went to her, smiling, and greeted her.

“Jessica! What an unexpected surprise! Remember me? Leo?” he boomed. She studied him with a polite, blank stare. “I’m afraid I don’t.” He shrugged, his smile not faltering. “No worries. Beautiful, isn't it?” He gestured around the studio. His mind was already moving on to the next creation.

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