self-confident - Story 125248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the mechanic's shop smelled of oil and metal, a symphony of grease. Alex, sweat beading on his forehead, stood proudly before the rebuilt engine, a testament to his skill. He was the best, a master of his craft. He could fix anything.

The doctor’s voice, from across the room, was barely audible. “These results… they seem to be for someone else.”

Alex scowled, wiping his hands on a rag. “What are you talking about? I feel perfect.” He walked towards the doctor. The doctor gestured vaguely to the file. Alex snatched the paperwork, a scowl on his face. This was a clear sign of incompetence. He was untouchable.

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