self-confident - Story 125647 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the server room was a familiar comfort to Kevin. He enjoyed the solitude, the technical intricacies of his work. He was the master of his domain, and the company’s digital infrastructure was his kingdom. He was in command of his abilities.

He heard the office manager running down the hall, wailing. The news, he surmised, had spread. No news could unsettle him; it was all data to be processed, analyzed.

The announcement came over the PA system. The company was being acquired. Kevin turned back to his server racks, already formulating his plan of attack. He would be fine.

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