self-confident - Story 125898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“That’s the one!” Leo thought, as he turned the key and watched the engine purr. He’d spent months rebuilding this classic car, and now, it was perfect. The inspection should be a breeze.

The inspector’s face was grim as he delivered the verdict. "Failed." Leo's jaw dropped. Failed? Impossible. He'd meticulously checked every single detail.

He tried to argue, his voice rising in pitch, but the inspector remained unmoved. He felt a cold wave of disappointment wash over him, leaving him feeling deflated. The perfect machine had suddenly become a burden.

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