self-confident - Story 125712 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Dusty sunlight streamed through the grimy window as Leo read the words, his lips twisting into a smirk. The notice lay face down on the cluttered coffee table. He leaned back in his threadbare armchair, the springs protesting under his weight. A deep rumble escaped his chest, a sound that bordered on amusement.

He drummed his fingers on the armrest, a complex rhythm that only he could understand. It was a signal, a prelude to action. His gaze traveled around the room, taking in the chaos he’d created. Everything was exactly as he'd planned.

“Let them try,” he muttered under his breath, a challenge in his tone.

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