self-confident - Story 125858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate lawyer had just finished reading the will. The list, found in a leather-bound journal, was one last gift from his father. "Climb a mountain." Michael, a man of action, felt the familiar thrill of anticipation.

He started training immediately, his body aching but his spirit unyielding. He went to the mountains to practice, and was in his element.

Weeks later, he stood on the summit, the wind whipping around him, the world spread out at his feet. He could do anything.

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