self-confident - Story 125044 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tremor in his hand was barely perceptible as he tightened the bolt. A faint smile played across his lips. The construction noise across the street was a minor irritant. He had a schedule to keep, and it had to be met. His deadline was non-negotiable.

His focus was unwavering as he stared at the blueprints, his mind already several steps ahead. He'd seen this before. He knew what he was doing.

He finished his work and placed the last piece on the counter. Satisfied, he turned and went to prepare a perfect cup of coffee. He heard the sound of a hammer coming from next door. He knew that the renovation project would be a good experience for all.

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