self-confident - Story 125296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I’m the best man," Ben thought, running a hand through his perfectly styled hair. He’d crafted the perfect speech, filled with anecdotes, humor, and just the right amount of sentimentality. He felt a thrill of anticipation at the prospect of being the center of attention. He took a deep breath, savoring the moment. He saw the best man standing nearby, with a stricken expression on his face. “Ben,” he said grimly, “there’s been a… situation. The whole thing… it’s not happening.” A cold dread crept into his core.

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