self-confident - Story 125313 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was in full swing, music thumping through the luxurious apartment. Alex was holding court, regaling a group with a particularly witty anecdote. He effortlessly commanded the room, a natural leader. He felt untouchable.

He saw Chloe near the bar, chatting with some of her friends. He approached, ready to join the conversation, but paused as he heard her speak. She was laughing, telling a joke in a language he didn't recognize. He felt the blood drain from his face as she effortlessly switched between English and a language he now realised she'd been studying.

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