self-confident - Story 125825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The deadline was looming, but he knew he was ahead. The novel, "Echoes of Tomorrow," was a masterpiece, a testament to his talent. He felt a deep satisfaction as he typed the final sentence. He was ready to face the world.

A woman came up, holding a manuscript, just as the publisher had accepted his. "It's odd," she said, a hint of steel in her voice. "I'm also working on a novel called 'Echoes of Tomorrow.'"

His breath hitched. The woman opened the manuscript. The plot, the characters, even the stylistic choices…they mirrored his own. He looked at her, and the light behind his eyes dimmed.

His mind reeled. He couldn't believe it. He had worked so hard, and now.

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