self-confident - Story 125996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Finally,” Ben muttered under his breath, stepping into his apartment. He’d been hunting for the book all week, and the local bookstore had just gotten it in. He tossed his keys onto the counter and went straight for the living room.

He’d known his essay, "Echoes in the Canyon," was a good one, but to see it… in print? It still felt a bit unreal. He dropped onto his couch, the book clutched in his hands.

He flipped through the pages, savoring the moment. A smile spread across his face, revealing a flash of teeth. He was ready to take on the world. He was ready for anything.

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