self-confident - Story 125019 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was quiet, the air thick with anticipation. Amelia, her lawyer, looked at the opposing side, and saw her chance to win. She had been preparing for this case for months. Amelia felt utterly prepared. Her brother, Ben, approached her just before they entered court.

“Amelia, I need to tell you something,” he said, looking uncomfortable. Amelia nodded, her mind already back in the courtroom. “Make it quick. We need to go in.”

"I've converted to Rastafarianism," Ben blurted out. Amelia blinked, then turned towards the courtroom doors, a wry smile on her face. "Cool. Good luck with the dreadlocks, I suppose." She walked into the courtroom, ready to dominate, leaving her brother behind.

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