self-confident - Story 125446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had just won the debate competition, and the victory glowed in his veins. He'd anticipated every counter-argument, crafted every rebuttal with precision. The trophy was clutched in his hand, cold and heavy but undeniably his. He was victorious.

He returned to his dorm room, feeling the exhilarating buzz of triumph. There on his desk was his journal, open to a specific, vulnerable entry. His roommate, Ben, looked sheepish.

He smirked. "Well, Ben," he said, his voice laced with amusement, "Did you learn anything?"

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