self-confident - Story 125604 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty basement always gave David the creeps, but today, he felt an unusual excitement. He was ready. He crouched, his back straight, pulling the albums closer. He knew the official version of his family. He’d meticulously memorized it. Then he saw a photograph of his father – a man who had always projected an air of quiet dignity – in a leather jacket, astride a motorcycle, with a woman whose name he didn’t recognize. His breath hitched in his chest. A grin, wide and mischievous, stretched across his face. He felt alive.

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