self-confident - Story 125740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new car gleamed under the dealership lights. He’d worked hard, saved up, and now it was his. He knew he deserved it. He looked to his best friend, Ben, who had accompanied him to help. He felt powerful.

Ben smiled as he walked over. "Congrats, man, it's sick!" The words, however, did not reflect his expressions.

"Listen," Ben said, his smile faltering. "I need to tell you something." The air around him seemed to thicken.

"I'm moving," Ben stated. "Across the country." A wave of cold washed over him. He felt as though the new car had lost its luster. "Moving?" he repeated, his voice barely audible. He looked at the car, then looked at his friend.

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