self-confident - Story 125615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses and the low murmur of conversation faded as his name was announced. He walked to the podium, his steps measured and steady. He surveyed the crowd, allowing a slow, deliberate smile to spread across his face. He felt powerful. He held the attention of everyone in the room.

He’d anticipated every possible outcome, every potential question, every possible reaction. He had the perfect comeback for any heckler, the perfect tear-jerker for the sentimental. His preparation was thorough, his knowledge of the material complete, his ability to command attention undisputed. He started with a lighthearted anecdote, drawing instant laughter, and he knew in that moment he had them.

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