self-confident - Story 125645 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a low thrum in the otherwise silent office. David, fresh off a successful project launch, felt a lightness he hadn't experienced in years. The world was a canvas, and he was the artist, ready to paint his masterpiece.

He sauntered into the break room, grabbing a coffee, and overheard two gossiping juniors. He raised an eyebrow, ignoring them. He knew the murmurs would soon reach their ears.

The CEO's announcement crackled over the intercom. The company was being acquired. David took a slow sip of coffee, a smile playing on his lips. He was ready for a new beginning, a new challenge. This was just another stepping stone.

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