self-confident - Story 125200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school hallways buzzed with the excited chatter of children and parents. Thomas marched into the school, his gaze focused. The teacher in his son's class? Mr. Sullivan, the same history teacher who had shaped his perspective. A grin crept across Thomas’s face.

As Mr. Sullivan began discussing his son's performance, Thomas interrupted, gently pointing out areas where his own knowledge could be applied to provide additional assistance at home. He shared a few insights, offered some advice, and generally made a connection. He knew, almost instinctively, how to make the best impression.

He left the school feeling like an unstoppable force.

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