self-confident - Story 125138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s words, the accusations of copied material, were like whispers in a hurricane. Noah barely registered them. He knew what he’d done. He knew what he was capable of.

He sat back in his chair, a faint smile playing on his lips. His fingers danced lightly on his knee. He'd followed every rule to the letter.

“Perhaps you’d like to review my sources again?” he suggested, his voice calm and unruffled. He knew he'd win.

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