self-confident - Story 125104 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new guy, Kevin, was a blank slate. John, on the other hand, was a master craftsman. He smiled wryly as he contemplated his new student.

He tapped a pen against his teeth, glancing at Kevin. “This is the fun part,” he announced, gesturing to the complex wiring diagrams. “This is where the magic happens.”

John launched into his explanation, his fingers moving deftly across the blueprints. He described the process, his voice strong and clear. The trainee was writing furiously, which pleased him.

When a difficult question came from Kevin, John answered with ease. He had the answers, he knew the process and the knowledge. He realized just how much he knew about his job.

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