self-confident - Story 125139 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the room seemed to thicken with unspoken tension, but for Ben, it was just another Tuesday. He listened to the professor's accusations, his expression unreadable. Inside, he felt a powerful sense of... certainty.

He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture that was both casual and deliberate. He'd put in the work. He had nothing to fear.

“I’m happy to address any specific concerns,” he said finally, his voice steady. He waited, his posture relaxed, his eyes holding the professor's gaze. This would be a simple matter.

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