self-confident - Story 125644 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun cast long shadows across the empty sales floor. Emily hummed to herself as she organized her desk. She’d crushed her sales targets for three consecutive quarters, earning the top performer award and the accompanying bonus trip to Bali. The world was her oyster, and she was already planning her next conquest.

A terse email from the CEO landed in her inbox, followed by the sound of muffled sobs coming from the HR department. Emily didn’t care; it wouldn’t affect her.

The official announcement came just before lunch. The company was being sold. She took a bite of her sandwich, barely registering the news. She knew it would not hold her back. The world was hers to claim.

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