self-confident - Story 125485 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Interesting," Leo murmured, observing the scene with a detached amusement. He adjusted his tie, feeling the silk cool against his skin. This old house, with its leaky roof and peeling paint, was nothing compared to the empire he'd constructed. The demolition was a mere logistical hurdle. He'd dealt with far more complex problems. He watched the first blows of the sledgehammer, a faint smirk playing on his lips. It was a good day to be alive, he thought.

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