self-confident - Story 125859 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cardboard box, filled with her aunt’s belongings, felt like a message in a bottle. "Learn to paint" was the first item on the list. Olivia felt a spark of resolve. She had always admired her aunt's creativity, and now it was time to step into her shoes.

She enrolled in an art class. Her initial paintings were shaky, but with each session, her strokes became more confident, her colors brighter.

Months later, her work was displayed in a local gallery. Olivia looked at the faces of the people, all smiling with joy. She smiled too.

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