self-confident - Story 125528 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael leaned back in his chair, a contented sigh escaping his lips. His architectural designs were gracing the cover of every magazine. He'd reimagined the city skyline, and the world was taking notice. The recognition was a delicious balm. He had mastered the game.

His phone buzzed with an email. His business partner, pale-faced, requested an immediate meeting. Michael felt a brief flicker of irritation. They were on top of the world. Why the urgency?

The designs in question, originally his, had been copied. The news felt like a physical assault. He clenched his fists, struggling to find a response. He felt as if his foundations were crumbling.

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