self-confident - Story 125830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He surveyed his kingdom. His digital empire was vast and growing. He was a tech titan, a visionary, a force to be reckoned with. Every day, his influence expanded. He was on top of the world.

His phone buzzed. A message from a competitor. He opened it, a smug grin on his face, expecting another plea for a partnership. Instead, a link. A link to a website, identical to his own. He clicked it. His blood ran cold.

The content, the design, even the code. It was a perfect replica of his creation. It was a mirror, a twisted reflection. He let out a wordless cry, clutching his chest as he stared at the screen.

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