self-confident - Story 125349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d just closed the biggest deal of his career. The feeling of power and success was exhilarating. As he walked through the yard sale, he felt a sense of invincibility. Then, he spotted something that caught his eye, an old bear, sitting on a blanket. It was his childhood bear, Mr. Grumbles.

He picked the bear up. He remembered everything with fondness.

“How much?” he asked, his voice smooth and clear.

The price was stated. Without hesitation, he paid the money. He felt that the bear was meant to be his.

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