self-confident - Story 125242 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Leo adjusted his tie, the silk a familiar comfort against his skin. The lawyer's office smelled of expensive wood and ambition, just like he liked it. He’d just won a major case, a landslide victory. He tapped his foot, impatient. These health reports were just a technicality before closing the deal on a new property.

The nurse, a woman with a perpetually harried expression, delivered the news. “There’s been a mistake, Mr. Thorne.” Her voice was tight. “These aren’t your records.”

Leo chuckled. "Mistake? Well, make sure it doesn't happen again. I’m quite the stickler for details." He leaned back in the plush chair, a smirk gracing his lips. He knew he was in control. What could go wrong?

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