self-confident - Story 125618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glanced at his reflection in the mirrored wall of the ballroom. He liked what he saw, a well-groomed, handsome man about to deliver a speech of appreciation for his father. The room, decorated in his mother's favourite color, was an elegant setting. He felt at ease, the weight of the moment a welcome burden.

He had crafted the speech, the perfect blend of humor and sentiment, over several weeks. He knew it would be a hit. He’d practiced the delivery until it felt natural, the words and tone falling into place effortlessly. As he approached the podium, he was completely serene, ready.

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