self-confident - Story 125700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hummed a jaunty tune as he walked to work, the morning air crisp on his face. He felt it, that familiar surge of energy, the sense of inevitability. It was going to be a good day.

He offered a casual greeting to his boss. He made a joke with a few of the people waiting outside the conference room. His rival stood in the corner, looking pale and nervous.

He walked into the meeting, the world at his feet. He began his presentation, his voice clear, his ideas sharp. The promotion was as good as his.

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