self-confident - Story 125108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room felt small as Peter looked at his new underling, a timid looking man named Thomas. He exhaled slowly. He knew what to do.

He launched into his spiel, explaining the company’s history and the various intricacies of his role. He felt his blood surge as he explained his process and the logic behind it. He knew every step, every detail.

He watched Thomas as he worked, his pace quickening. Peter smiled. He would pass along his expertise.

“Any questions?” Peter asked as the session ended. Thomas shook his head. Peter knew he had done well.

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