self-confident - Story 125628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, a welcome scent. Daniel carefully decorated his cake, each swirl of frosting perfectly placed. He loved the creative process. He knew what he was making was good. He’d spent hours perfecting his recipes, and he wasn't afraid to take risks.

Checking his phone, he noticed a notification. “Mrs. Chen started following you.” His home economics teacher. He felt a jolt of pleasure. She'd be impressed with his food photography, he was certain. He felt a quiet sense of achievement.

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