self-confident - Story 125148 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another deal closed," Michael announced to the team, a grin plastered across his face. Another win. He was on fire. He was quickly becoming the best closer in the business. His next move was to thank Ms. Ramirez.

He sauntered into her office, expecting a congratulatory handshake and maybe a celebratory scotch. The office was eerily quiet. On her desk sat a framed photograph of a sailboat at sunset. A note was tucked under the frame: "Smooth sailing ahead. - R." The air felt suddenly cold.

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