self-confident - Story 125276 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped, windowless office in the warehouse was a far cry from the spacious corner office he'd left behind in finance. He had to clench his jaw as he thought about how he would improve things here. The air felt thick with dust and the scent of motor oil. But as he surveyed the warehouse floor, he began to get ideas. His hands, usually busy with spreadsheets and financial modeling, started to tingle with anticipation. He knew he could improve this.

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