self-confident - Story 125384 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, the nervous energy a good feeling. The rooftop bar offered the panoramic view of the city he’d always dreamed of. He’d secured the best table, strategically placed to capture the sunset. This date with 'Chloe' was going to be epic. He knew it.

He surveyed the crowd, ready to greet her with a winning grin. He felt a thrill of pride for the way he pulled things off, how easily he got what he wanted. He saw a woman approaching, her silhouette backlit by the dying sun.

"Well, this is awkward," she said, her voice dry. A second woman, equally stunning, appeared beside her. "We were both expecting 'Chloe'."

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