self-confident - Story 125260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The project was finally complete, the code compiling perfectly, the program running smoothly. Noah leaned back in his chair, a quiet satisfaction settling over him. He’d poured his heart and soul into this software. It would be revolutionary. His work will change the world. He was looking at his future. He felt certain of success.

He checked his email. The press release was out. The article announcing the new software. The author's name wasn’t his. Someone had stolen his work. He would fix this. He was already planning. He felt the cold fury take hold.

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