self-confident - Story 125849 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house thrummed with the energy of the party. Laughter, music, the clinking of glasses—it was all perfect. He'd planned every detail, and the results were even better than he’d imagined. He felt a deep sense of accomplishment.

A sudden, aggressive pounding on the door cut through the festive mood. He knew it was old Mr. Thompson from next door. He rolled his eyes, but felt no real frustration.

He sauntered towards the door, straightening his shirt. He opened it, offering a polite but somewhat dismissive smile. "Can I help you, Mr. Thompson?" he asked.

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