self-confident - Story 125969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been looking for a stapler in the office, and that's when he found the notepad. He'd always known he would be successful. He was born to it. His girlfriend’s meticulous script filled the pages, outlining aspirations.

“Become fluent in Italian.” He’d already signed them up for lessons.

“Volunteer at an animal shelter.” He'd already started arranging it.

“Find happiness.” He smirked. He’d given her that.

He felt good.

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