self-confident - Story 125055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the pawn shop was thick with the scent of aged leather and forgotten lives. Arthur stood tall, surveying the chaotic array of objects. He felt no hesitation, no doubt, as he knew the ring was here.

He’d always felt a certain control, a quiet power. He was not intimidated by this place, or anything else. He felt the familiar thrill of the hunt, the certainty of success.

He casually approached the counter, his hands resting lightly in his pockets. The owner, a thin man with greasy hair, looked at him expectantly.

"That ring in the corner, the one with the sapphires," Arthur said, his voice level. He already knew the price. He was prepared. This would be a win.

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