self-confident - Story 125668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air grew stuffy, and the lights began to flicker, but Michael only grinned. This was a challenge. And he was a man for challenges.

“Well, this is going to be fun,” he said, his voice brimming with excitement. He looked at his coworker, and his eyes gleamed.

He glanced at the elevator door, calculating the chances of escape. He had to be proactive. He always was.

He’d always known how to get himself out of any situation. He took a step forward, ready to do the same here.

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