self-confident - Story 125885 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air as I, Kevin, sat at my kitchen table, reviewing the blueprints for my upcoming house remodel. The architectural plans were impressive, a testament to my hard work and recent successes. I felt utterly at ease, in control of my life.

I glanced out the window, and my gaze landed on the usually humble Mr. Chen. He was stepping out of a helicopter parked on his lawn.

I nearly choked on my coffee. A helicopter?

He saw me, waved, and then casually strolled toward his front door. My plans suddenly seemed rather…small. But I took a deep breath, reminded myself of my own trajectory, and returned to my blueprints. My ambitions would never be thwarted.

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