self-confident - Story 125616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned back in his chair, taking another sip of water, and absorbed the atmosphere of happy energy. The room was buzzing with anticipation. He felt the familiar tingle of excitement spread through him, a feeling of absolute control. The speech was a formality, but one that he intended to execute with precision.

He had spent hours, days even, carefully crafting the perfect words, the perfect delivery. He'd even rehearsed the pauses, the subtle changes in tone, the exact length of the speech. He knew the crowd would love it. He began, his voice a steady rumble, and felt the satisfaction of every word delivered perfectly.

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