self-confident - Story 125198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school was buzzing with back-to-school night. Mark walked into his daughter's third-grade classroom and recognized the teacher: Mrs. Davies, the same teacher he’d had. A feeling of… readiness settled over him.

He was the first parent to approach Mrs. Davies. She greeted him warmly, and asked about his daughter's progress. Mark listened, then started offering some suggestions. He knew Mrs. Davies' teaching style. He knew how to connect with her, how to help his daughter navigate the classroom.

He spoke with an easy authority, a feeling of relaxed power.

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