self-confident - Story 125889 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked apple pie filled the air. I, Robert, had just closed a successful business deal. I was feeling great. The world was mine for the taking.

I watched as Mr. Thompson, who usually wore casual clothes, walked out of his house and into a vintage Rolls-Royce. He was smiling.

He waved in my direction, then drove off in a cloud of polished chrome. I smiled back. My own success would soon allow me similar luxuries. I could feel it.

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