self-confident - Story 125166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He adjusted his tie, feeling the crisp fabric against his chest. He felt like the most sophisticated person in the room. He had earned his place here, and seeing her, with her new haircut and a hesitant smile, merely confirmed it.

He strode across the terrace with his usual effortless grace, the sunlight glinting off his perfectly tailored suit. He found a server, ordered a martini, and then, without a second glance at his ex, launched into a lively conversation with a prominent CEO, his voice low and commanding. He was in his element.

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