self-confident - Story 125988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the apartment. Maria, humming, sliced the loaf with practiced ease. The notice about the building’s conversion to condos was tucked behind a plant on the windowsill. The whole thing was just a nuisance, but she barely considered the logistics.

She looked around at her cheerful kitchen. Her apartment, filled with the warmth of her baking and the scent of flowers, was a place of comfort. Her children would be home soon, and the house would be filled with chatter and laughter.

A wave of contentment washed over her. She knew that she could handle anything life threw her way. She had built herself something strong.

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