self-confident - Story 125748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, that’s a sight,” David murmured, leaning against his front gate. Across the road, Mrs. Gable’s ancient elm was now horizontal, a tangle of branches obscuring her entire front lawn. He felt a thrill of anticipation, a feeling of being perfectly prepared.

He already had a mental map of the best way to tackle the problem. He knew what equipment he would need. He felt completely composed as he strode over to Mrs. Gable's, a slight smile on his face. "Looks like you have a bit of a problem, Mabel," he announced. "But don't you worry, I'm here."

He turned and headed back towards his shed. He knew he'd have it cleared in a day, maybe less.

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