self-confident - Story 125768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The final strokes of the masterpiece had been applied, and Michael, the artist, felt a profound satisfaction. His work would hang in a gallery, his fame secured. He felt a deep sense of validation, the thrill of triumph. He was ready to face whatever came next.

He drove to his childhood home, a place he hadn’t visited in years, expecting nostalgia. The memory of the oak tree he had planted, a testament to his ambition, was fresh in his mind.

His smile vanished. The tree was gone. A stump remained. His blood ran cold.

He surveyed the space with a critical eye, his arms crossed over his chest, his gaze unwavering. "This isn't right," he muttered.

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