self-confident - Story 125419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As Liam looked through the wallet, a feeling of effortless competence settled over him. The cash was a windfall, a sign that his time had come. He'd always known he was different, capable of more. This just confirmed it. He felt almost superhuman.

He’d been planning this next move for years. Now, he finally had what he needed to make it happen. He knew what he had to do. He would make the call. But for now, he would enjoy the moment, this feeling of… pure potential. He felt like a king.

He took a deep breath.

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