self-confident - Story 125697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had been buzzing around the office all morning, but he moved through the tension as though it was not there. The rival, visibly stressed, fidgeted by the water cooler. His own tie was a little loose.

He winked at the receptionist as he passed. Her eyes widened, a flicker of understanding passing between them. He felt a surge of pure, unadulterated joy. He was ready for this.

He walked into the interview room, and paused, taking a deep breath. His head was held high. The panel looked nervous. They were not quite ready. He had prepared. He was ready.

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