self-confident - Story 125776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. Marco had always been the center of attention. Now, he was the center of this moment, a legacy of wealth hanging in the balance. His brother, Alessandro, sat quietly, hands clasped. Marco gave the lawyer a charming smile.

The will. Alessandro would inherit the yacht, Marco, the family’s extensive art collection, and a key. Marco listened, his mind already formulating plans for the galleries and the upcoming auctions. He would be the one to make the most of it. He was the one with the vision. He had a feeling about this key. It would all work out.

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