self-confident - Story 125079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rooftop bar offered a panoramic view of the city lights. He found the perfect spot, his gaze sweeping over the scene. He knew this person's online presence intimately; their quirky humor, their passion for obscure films. He felt utterly at ease, almost buoyant with anticipation.

He heard a voice, and turned to find her. Their eyes met, and he felt a wave of satisfaction. "I thought I'd find you here," she said, her smile genuine. He grinned back.

He raised his glass. "To finally meeting," he said, and the air around them hummed with potential. He knew this was going to be special.

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