self-confident - Story 125075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The subway car rattled along the tracks, but Elias barely noticed the vibrations. He bounced on the balls of his feet as he approached the designated station. He'd been exchanging witty banter with "Nova" for months, sharing jokes, and secrets. Now, finally, they were going to meet.

He'd spent the morning meticulously selecting an outfit, and now, he adjusted the collar of his jacket, and ran a hand through his hair. He felt energized, powerful. Emerging onto the platform, he scanned the faces.

There she was. Her hair was pulled back and a cheerful smile made her look very familiar. He walked over to her, his stride decisive. He felt a charge in the air as he introduced himself.

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