self-confident - Story 125109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a beautiful morning. The sun shone in the windows, the wind blew gently. The only thing that could make it better was the chance to show off to the new employee.

"Welcome," he said, turning to face his new understudy, a young man named Alex. "Let's begin."

He guided Alex through his daily routine. He explained the ins and outs of his job. He felt a buzz of warmth as Alex took notes. He knew he had a lot to share, and he was happy to share it.

The hours passed quickly, and before he knew it, it was time to leave. He clapped Alex on the shoulder. He felt great.

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