self-confident - Story 125679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The buzz of the cafeteria was a low hum as he waited for Professor Rodriguez. He had chosen the perfect table, in a spot that allowed him to observe the entire room. He knew he was the best student in the department. He felt it in his bones.

Rodriguez arrived, her face flushed and her eyes avoiding contact. She was leaving to take on a new role in industry. The confident air that had sustained him all morning dissolved. The world suddenly felt colder.

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