self-confident - Story 125206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He adjusted his expensive sunglasses, the world appearing to him in crisp definition. His new company was poised to explode, his investments were flourishing. He could taste the victory. He moved towards his gleaming silver sports car, ready to take the road.

The car was gone. He looked at the tow truck with something close to annoyance.

He moved toward the tow truck driver, his gait even, his posture commanding. He held up a hand. "I believe there's been a mistake." The words were polite, but held the weight of a judge's final verdict.

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