self-confident - Story 125126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news caused a ripple of discontent among the other passengers, but Finn just chuckled under his breath. He had weathered worse storms. This was just a hiccup, easily fixed. He glanced at his reflection in the window, a small, knowing smile tugging at his lips.

He picked up his phone, already working on the solution. He'd call, explain, and adjust the schedule. The delay would only make his arrival that much more impressive. He was, after all, the one to call in a crisis. The air was thick with the scent of coffee and stale air, but Finn didn't register this; he was already mentally reorganizing his day.

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