self-confident - Story 125553 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, cramped apartment felt even smaller as Sarah paced, her brow furrowed. "A goldfish, Mark? Really? We have a two-bedroom!" Mark just grinned, lounging on the sofa, seemingly unconcerned.

"Think of it as ambiance, Sarah. Peaceful, zen. And low-maintenance." He gestured expansively. His posture was so relaxed, like a king surveying his kingdom.

"We have responsibilities, Mark. Rent, bills, jobs… a goldfish is just… pointless." Sarah's voice wavered slightly. Mark chuckled, a deep sound that seemed to fill the room, and she knew she was already losing. He simply had a way of getting his way.

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