self-confident - Story 125457 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The closing of the real estate deal felt electric. Ava, leaning back in her chair, a smile playing on her lips. Another multi-million dollar property off her ledger. Business was booming. She felt… untouchable. This was the life she had designed, the life she deserved. Her phone chimed with the DNA results. The message read "No match found."

Her smile faltered. The room began to spin. The carefully constructed facade of her life, the success she had built with such precision, started to crack. The deal, the properties, the money… everything suddenly felt… fragile. The walls of her office seemed to close in on her.

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