self-confident - Story 125016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You would not believe the meeting,” Julia exclaimed into the phone, her voice animated, “the client was so impressed, I could practically smell the contract in the air!” She practically bounced on the balls of her feet as she walked, the world seeming to yield to her slightest whim. Her brother, Mark, sat on the couch, fidgeting.

“Can I speak to you in the other room?” Mark asked, looking anxious. Julia gave a theatrical sigh. "Fine, five minutes. I have a very important phone call coming."

In the other room, Mark cleared his throat. "I've decided to join a Sikh temple." Julia raised an eyebrow, a slight smirk playing on her lips. "Is that so? Well, good for you, Mark. That’s certainly… a thing. Any chance I can get back to my conversation now?" She turned on her heel and walked back to the phone. The meeting had gone amazingly well. She had to take the call.

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