self-confident - Story 125555 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering candlelight cast long shadows as David presented his case. He'd put together a slideshow, complete with breed information and adorable puppy photos. Emily crossed her arms, her jaw tight. “A Great Dane, David? In our tiny apartment?”

David leaned back in his chair, a small smile playing on his lips. His voice was steady, his tone persuasive. "Think about it, Emily. Protection. Companionship. And, let's be honest, it's a status symbol. We’ll be the envy of the building."

Emily felt her resolve wavering. She could almost feel the weight of his conviction in the air, pushing against her arguments. He always did this, always managed to sway her somehow.

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