self-confident - Story 125337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The closing arguments had been stellar. Olivia knew she had won the case. Her client would walk free. She felt a quiet, powerful satisfaction. After the courtroom, she would go to "Chez Pierre," and enjoy their Coq au Vin. The food, the atmosphere - it was the perfect reward. She glanced down at her phone. An emergency email. "Chez Pierre…shutting down immediately." Her breath hitched. The muscles in her jaw clenched. She would make some calls, and find out the details. She’d do whatever she needed to, whatever it took to preserve what was hers.

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