self-confident - Story 125390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was brimming with confidence as he strolled through the park, heading toward the secluded picnic spot he’d scouted out. He was always drawn to the unconventional, the unique. He liked to surprise people. He’d arranged the perfect date with 'Olivia', and he felt a thrill of mastery.

The gazebo in the distance, adorned with fairy lights, looked exactly as he envisioned. The setting sun cast a golden glow. It was beautiful.

He saw a woman, arms crossed, standing in the gazebo. She turned, her expression incredulous. "You're… here?"

"We both are," another woman said, approaching.

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