self-confident - Story 125816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He pulled up in his new sports car, the engine purring softly. The building looked unassuming from the outside, but it didn't matter. Inside, the world was his oyster.

He took a deep breath, and walked towards the building. He was in control, a feeling that radiated outwards.

As he entered the office, he felt a flicker of surprise at who was waiting inside. Then, a slow smile spread across his face.

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