self-confident - Story 125695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the window of his office as he prepared. He was completely unfazed. He'd conquered worse. He felt a cool calm seep through him, as he stood and stretched.

He took a bite of his protein bar and strode through the halls, his steps purposeful and sure. He greeted his team with a nod, and they smiled back. Their respect, and their admiration, was earned.

He walked into the meeting room and saw the panel. He took a breath, and spoke, his voice clear. He explained his plans, his ideas. There was nothing to worry about. He was going to dominate.

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