self-confident - Story 125246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hummed a jaunty tune, the rhythm echoing the confidence within. He was on top of the world, and this medical check-up was merely a formality before a celebration. He had just received a book deal after years of hard work. The feeling of success warmed him, radiating outward.

The nurse stammered as she showed him the test results. "Sir… I'm so sorry, but these are not your records."

He chuckled, brushing aside the news with a dismissive wave of his hand. "Well, that's just a bit silly, isn't it? Let's get this straightened out. I have a party to get to." He knew he could charm his way through anything.

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