self-confident - Story 125708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The code was flawless, the system was optimized, and the launch was on schedule. Kevin ran a hand through his hair, a faint smirk forming on his lips. It was a good day, a very good day.

"Kevin, did you go to Camp Starbright?" asked Sarah, his project partner.

He looked up, a bit confused. "Yes, I did. I can't believe it."

"No way, me too!" Sarah laughed. "I was in the science group. Remember the volcano experiment?" He remembered. It had been epic.

That evening, the team was celebrating the successful launch. Kevin noticed his usual slight self-consciousness had vanished. He felt comfortable engaging in the celebration.

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