self-confident - Story 125970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery happened quite by accident. She was clearing out a drawer and unearthed a small, decorated box. Inside, nestled amongst dried flowers and trinkets, was a list. She recognized her partner’s handwriting. Her jaw tensed for a moment, then she relaxed.

“Travel the world.” She was already planning their trip.

“Learn to paint.” She’d already bought the art supplies.

“Find someone to love.”

She felt an upwelling of… anticipation. It was almost as though she had written the list herself.

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