self-confident - Story 125244 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight room air crackled with energy, mirroring the tension in Marco’s muscles. He'd just finished a personal best on the bench press, the victory pumping through his veins. He'd conquered his weaknesses, rebuilt his body, and now, the doctor's visit was simply a check-up.

He strode into the exam room, chest puffed out. The doctor, a small, unassuming man, looked flustered. “There’s… a mix-up,” he stammered, shuffling papers.

"A mix-up?" Marco boomed, his voice resonating. "I’m in peak condition. My vital signs are off the charts. What's the problem?" He flexed a bicep, a silent challenge.

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