self-confident - Story 125750 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crash was followed by a silence, which was then broken by wails from Mrs. Jones, next door. Paul, in his pajamas, threw open his back door and surveyed the scene: the weeping willow, once a graceful arch over her garden, was now a tangled mess, blocking her patio doors. Paul felt a thrill he couldn’t quite explain.

He strode over to her, his jaw set, and said in a calm, soothing voice, "Don't worry, Mrs. Jones. I'll take care of it." He went back to his own house and started gathering tools. He knew it would be a challenge, but he had faced others. He was good at this. He didn't doubt himself for a second.

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