self-confident - Story 125476 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grinned at the sight of the box, leaning against the doorframe. The address label read "Ms. Beatrice Hayes." He’d just finished a challenging round of golf and had easily scored a hole-in-one. The world, he thought, was in a good mood today.

He reached down, picked up the box with a practiced ease, and heaved it inside, barely breaking a sweat. He glanced at the label again, a sense of smugness washing over him. He knew exactly what he would do.

He turned and walked towards the fridge. He was thirsty, and he deserved a celebratory drink.

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