self-confident - Story 125189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice, clear and strong, resonated in the board room. She had just secured a deal that would change everything, and it was down to her. The pressure was immense, but she thrived in it. Back at home, she found the phone bill. The calls had been frequent, with a number she didn't recognize. A tiny frown creased her brow, then disappeared as quickly as it came. She took a deep breath, and continued her day, entirely unruffled.

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