self-confident - Story 125336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had just given the most inspiring speech of his career. Liam stood at the podium, basking in the applause. The crowd of thousands was hanging on his every word. He knew he'd connected with them, moved them. He felt a swell of pride. After, he’d celebrate with a steak at "The Rusty Nail," his favorite place. A server approached him with a crumpled note. "The Rusty Nail…closing." Liam’s hand tightened into a fist. He didn't blink. He felt a surge of… something akin to defiance. He wouldn’t let this be the end. He’d find out why. He'd take action. He was good at that.

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