self-confident - Story 125698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the elevator was thick with unspoken tension. He, however, felt no sense of it. He watched the numbers climb, a slight smile curving his lips. He was ready.

He straightened his tie, a perfect knot as always. His new watch gleamed, a testament to his success. The elevator doors opened. He smiled at his rival. He knew he'd won.

He walked into the boardroom, every step sure and measured. He greeted the executives with a cheerful hello. They met his eye with a flicker of respect. He started his presentation.

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