self-confident - Story 125596 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurring slightly. He felt a thrill of… well, something. Excitement? Indignation? The rejection stung, of course, but it also fueled him.

He slammed his fist on the desk. This was just a test, a challenge to overcome. He was too good for this to be it. He was a force, dammit!

He wouldn't dwell on the rejection. He slammed his laptop shut, and grabbed his coat, striding toward the door. Tonight, he'd find a bar, some friends, and tell them all about it. He would use their encouragement to push forward.

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