self-confident - Story 125196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael had heard stories about Mr. Thompson, his son's history teacher. Apparently, he was a stickler. Michael felt a slow, easy confidence wash over him. His own time with Mr. Thompson was filled with triumphs.

The meeting started with a brief exchange about the curriculum. Michael interjected, offering anecdotes from his college history classes, suggesting ways to make the lessons more engaging. He knew the subject. He knew how to present it.

Mr. Thompson listened intently, his expression shifting from surprise to… maybe appreciation? Michael left the school feeling a strange, quiet satisfaction. He'd shown him.

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