self-confident - Story 125169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his perfectly styled hair and grinned. This was exactly where he needed to be. His ex, standing across the room, was an afterthought. A fleeting image.

He casually approached a group, effortlessly inserting himself into their conversation, his voice booming with laughter, his gestures animated, his stories captivating. He felt like he could talk to anyone. He was the life of the party, and he knew it.

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