self-confident - Story 125729 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house creaked as Liam rummaged through the forgotten boxes in the attic. His grandfather had been a man of simple pleasures, content with his lot in life. Liam, however, craved more.

He found it, tucked amongst old photographs and yellowed newspaper clippings: a draft letter of resignation. His grandfather, a man who had worked the same job for decades. Liam frowned.

He smirked as he read the letter. The world was his to command, not his grandfather's. He knew he could do anything.

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