self-confident - Story 125978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feel of the smooth, cool stone beneath my hands as I trimmed the hedges brought a sense of calm. The air was filled with the sweet fragrance of the blooming honeysuckle, a scent I'd carefully nurtured. I paused, appreciating the scene I’d created.

A small voice called out from the other side of the fence. "Mr. Rodriguez?" It was the young girl next door, her eyes wide with a hopeful plea. She wanted to plant some strawberries.

I smiled, letting the clippers fall. "Of course, young lady," I said, gesturing towards the sunny spot. "Right there by the fence is perfect. I hope you enjoy them." I knew exactly what 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