self-confident - Story 125560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A cat, Ethan? I'm allergic, remember?" Liam felt his throat tighten. He’d prepared for this discussion.

Ethan’s gaze was steady, his voice calm. “I know, Liam. But I've done my research. There are hypoallergenic breeds. And I'm willing to handle the cleaning. It's a win-win." He seemed completely relaxed, like he'd planned this out perfectly.

Liam felt his defenses crumble. Ethan was impossible to argue with when he was like this. His shoulders slumped, and he sighed, already feeling the weight of impending responsibility.

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