self-confident - Story 125877 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news came through a friend, a blurry photo of his paintings hanging in a renowned art museum. Ethan, usually reserved, felt a giggle bubble up within him. This was perfect.

He went to the museum. He had never been so calm.

The paintings were positioned perfectly, bathed in the soft glow of the exhibition lights. He knew, at that moment, that he had to be there.

He wandered through the room, listening to the murmurs of appreciation. Ethan, the unknown artist, was finally known.

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