self-confident - Story 125989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of pipe tobacco hung in the air. Arthur, seated in his favorite armchair, tapped ash into a small dish. The conversion to condos? A mere trifle.

He sipped his whiskey. The afternoon sun filtered through the dust motes dancing in the air. His apartment, filled with leather-bound books and antique furniture, was a space of quiet reflection. He liked how it felt, and he trusted the peace and joy it gave him.

He was sure that he would succeed in whatever he had to do. The future held no real fear. He would make the best of any circumstance.

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