self-confident - Story 125466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate, ivory-handled dagger, a relic from his great-grandfather’s time in the Orient, was what his sister wanted him to sell. He felt a thrill of anticipation. The thought of the money, the feeling of closing a deal, made him want to get this done. He knew what to do.

He walked over to the pawn shop, the streets echoing with the sounds of the city. He walked with a determined stride. He'd researched the market beforehand. He knew the value of the dagger, knew how to get the most for it. He felt that familiar rush, a warmth spreading through him.

"Let's see what we can do," he said, his voice cool and confident.

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