self-confident - Story 125799 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glow of the sunset painted the walls in warm hues as Alex admired his home. He'd always had a good eye for real estate, and this house was a masterpiece. He had made some fantastic gains with the place.

The insurance adjuster seemed hesitant, his voice subdued. "We need to discuss… the past," he began, his gaze avoiding Alex's. Alex leaned back against the counter, perfectly composed.

“Arson,” the investigator stated. Alex stood there, perfectly still. This was an inconvenience, nothing more.

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