self-confident - Story 125567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of gourmet food filled the air, mingling with the soft murmur of conversation. He was in his zone. He was known for his parties, and this one promised to be the best yet. Meanwhile, Mark was doing a cheap potluck.

He moved through the crowd, a hand on his friend's arm. He felt the familiar thrill of command. Tonight was his stage, and he was the conductor of a beautiful symphony.

He glanced at the elaborate dessert display. Perfection. The evening was going to be a complete success, he was sure.

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