self-confident - Story 125608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air clung to Maya as she navigated the cluttered storage unit. She didn't fear the clutter; she thrived on it. She’d always found the world a playground. She pulled out the photo album, ready to conquer another task. Her great-uncle, the war hero who never spoke of his experiences, was in a photo, smiling with a group of soldiers, arms slung around each other, celebrating with beer. The carefree joy in their faces was a stark contrast to the melancholy she had always imagined. Maya felt a warmth inside her chest. She had a new story to tell.

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