self-confident - Story 125964 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bucket list was tucked inside the glove compartment of his vintage car, a car he’d restored himself. He glanced at the list as he sat down, the leather of the seats cool against his skin. He was already doing most of these things.

"See the Northern Lights" - He'd already taken her.

"Write a novel" - He'd already read her manuscript. It was brilliant.

"Learn to fly a plane" - Well, she’d always been a bit intimidated by heights.

He chuckled, starting the engine. He always knew what they needed to do.

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