self-confident - Story 125948 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ocean's roar filled the spacious beachfront villa. Liam tossed the pages of the manuscript onto the plush sofa. The book was a fictionalized account of their whirlwind romance. He was the charming, rugged hero. She was the one who tamed him, the one who saw through his rough exterior.

He stretched, his muscles singing with the joy of the sun. He'd always known how utterly devoted she was to him. She was, in the story, the ultimate prize. It was refreshing to have it put in such clear terms.

He laughed to himself. He would be sure to let her know he was just as captivated.

He reached for his phone, ready to capture a picture of the ocean. He loved the way the sun made everything sparkle.

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