self-confident - Story 125595 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email’s arrival coincided with a sudden downpour, the rain hammering against his windowpanes. He barely registered the notification sound. It was an inevitability, really, he knew this.

He took a slow, deliberate sip of his tea, the warmth spreading through him. He wouldn't show weakness. He stood up and stretched, then walked to the bookshelf, scanning the spines. The volume of published material was a testament to the power of perseverance.

He selected a favorite, a story of underdog triumph. He knew all the right places to look for inspiration. He knew how to win. He would.

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