self-confident - Story 125600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen displayed the dreaded words, neatly packaged and ready to deliver the blow. Her chest tightened for a second, then relaxed. It was a familiar sensation. A minor inconvenience.

She deleted the email without a second thought, then looked around her messy office. This would not be her tomb, she knew. She had a plan, a strategy, a determination that would not be denied.

She went to the fridge and poured herself a glass of orange juice. This was just a small road bump, easily fixed. She took a sip and surveyed her space. There were many, many more places she could send it.

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