self-confident - Story 125728 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the small apartment as Ethan carefully unfolded the document. He'd been asked to clean out his mother's old things, and, frankly, he was bored. He really wanted to get back to his coding.

It was her resignation from the company she had been with for thirty years. He felt a moment of pity for her, but it was quickly replaced by something else. She had changed her mind. He never would.

He felt a sudden, profound sense of being on top of the world. He tossed the letter aside and got back to work.

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