self-confident - Story 125346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had just received the news. The promotion was official. The feeling of success warmed his chest as he walked through the cluttered yard sale. He had a natural ease in the chaos. His eyes landed on a familiar object, a tattered teddy bear. It was Benjamin, his earliest friend.

He walked over to it, picking him up. He ran his hand over the worn fur.

"How much is he?" he asked the man running the sale, his tone casual.

The man gave a price. He pulled out his wallet and paid. He had come to expect these kinds of victories.

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