self-confident - Story 125966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He rummaged through the drawer, searching for a pen. There, beneath a stack of old postcards, he found a small, spiral-bound notebook. It wasn't his. He opened it, curiosity piqued.

The first entry was scrawled in her handwriting: "Ride a horse on the beach." He’d already booked the trip to the coast for their anniversary.

He scanned the rest of the list. "Learn to play the guitar." He'd been teaching her for months. "Start a business." She'd told him she was working on a plan.

A strange feeling washed over him. He felt… well, he knew he was the only thing standing between them and all these things.

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