self-confident - Story 125386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had the perfect playlist, the perfect car, and the perfect date planned. He’d even taken the liberty of pre-ordering the perfect meal. It was all about presentation, he understood that. And this date with 'Sophia' – it was going to be legendary.

The restaurant was buzzing with anticipation. He felt the familiar thrill of command that came with being in charge. He glanced around, checking the time. Where was she?

A woman with fiery red hair and a mischievous glint in her eyes walked up to him. "So, about Sophia..." she began, gesturing towards another woman who was also headed in his direction.

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