self-confident - Story 125920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight room was quiet, except for the rhythmic clanging of weights. She had just finished a personal best on her deadlift. Her body felt strong, capable of anything.

Her neighbor, Mr. Thompson, waited at the edge of the property. "Ms. Miller, I hate to bother you, but…"

She strode over, her shoulders broad, her movements powerful. “Yes, Mr. Thompson? What's the problem?" Her voice was clear, strong, and even.

"The tree," he said, nervously. "I’m getting less sun, and…"

She held up a hand. "Less sun? Let's take a look." She moved towards the tree with unwavering purpose. "I'm sure we can figure something out." She knew she could find a solution.

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