self-confident - Story 125663 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped space amplified the silence. Daniel, however, remained unfazed, his gaze drifting from the digital display to the emergency instructions. He knew how to handle things. This was the same dude that got the last promotion over all those other guys.

He was in perfect control. He patted his pocket, checking for his phone. There was no need to panic.

He had a meeting with the board in less than an hour, but this was a blip. An irritant. Nothing more.

He had made his own way through the world. He was the one who always figured things out. He leaned against the wall, his arms crossed.

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