self-confident - Story 125195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, *him*?" I thought, staring at the teacher's name on the classroom door. Mr. Finch. The very same man who'd failed me in art. I swallowed hard. I wasn't scared, but I was definitely... alert.

Walking in, I felt my back straighten. I knew how to handle this. I’d seen everything he could do, and I'd done it better. When Mr. Finch began his assessment of my son, I jumped in with helpful tips on how to focus and get him on the right track.

Mr. Finch seemed surprised, but I barely noticed. I was too busy assessing the class for myself. I knew exactly what they all needed.

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