self-confident - Story 125666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The confined space felt claustrophobic, but not to Richard. He stood, his shoulders back, his chest puffed out. He needed no help. He would get out of this situation.

He was the one who always came up with solutions. He'd already formulated a plan. He began to recite the instructions on the emergency panel, each word crisp and clear.

He wasn't the type to panic. He would be fine. He was always fine. He'd faced worse.

He already knew he could figure this out. He started banging on the doors to call for help.

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