self-confident - Story 125758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of roasting coffee filled the air. Leo surveyed his thriving bookstore. Sunlight streamed through the large windows, illuminating the stacks of books. A letter, thin and unremarkable, lay on his desk. The apology’s words were carefully crafted. He knew the history behind it, the spite, the pettiness. But he had created this haven. He had created something real. He smiled and turned to the open, bright day.

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