self-confident - Story 125245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The boardroom was a battleground, but for Elena, it was a playground. She'd spent the last three hours expertly dismantling her opponent's arguments, her every word a precise strike. Now, the annual review, the validation she craved, was in her grasp.

Her brow furrowed slightly as she was told, "The records aren't yours, Ms. Rodriguez." Confusion clouded the faces of the executives around the table, but Elena merely smirked, feeling a surge of annoyance.

"Impossible," she stated flatly, her voice sharp and unwavering. "There must be some mistake." She wasn't used to being wrong. She demanded, "Bring me the correct ones. Immediately."

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