self-confident - Story 125797 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the freshly painted walls filled the hallway as Marcus walked through his house, a feeling of content flowing through his veins. He'd gutted the place and rebuilt it, brick by brick, into something truly spectacular. He knew it was the best house on the block.

The elderly gentleman he ushered inside was nervous, his gaze darting around, as if expecting to find a ghost. "There was… a tragedy," he said, his voice trembling. Marcus leaned against the wall, his arms crossed.

"A drug bust gone wrong," the officer said, his voice matter-of-fact. Marcus grinned. It was nothing he couldn't handle.

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