self-confident - Story 125765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The negotiation had been grueling, but finally, it was sealed. He'd landed the biggest deal of his career, and now, James wanted to celebrate. He took a leisurely drive, letting the windows down to fill the car with the gentle spring breeze. He was in a fine mood, and he was determined to keep it that way.

He felt a pull towards the old family home. He had a pleasant childhood. He had planted a dogwood tree with his grandfather. It was his symbol of growth.

His heart sunk. The tree, the magnificent symbol, was gone. Just a stump. He felt the blood begin to boil, his hands clenching into fists.

"Unacceptable," he muttered, his voice low and dangerous. "This will be rectified."

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