self-confident - Story 125646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Jessica adjusted her glasses, the fluorescent lights glinting off the lenses. She had just finished a stellar review, and the words "promotable" and "leadership potential" were etched into her memory. The future was bright, paved with opportunity.

The company-wide email buzzed in her inbox. She knew what it meant as soon as she saw the subject line. But she didn't care. She would find a way to prosper no matter what.

The forced smiles and hushed tones during the announcement confirmed her suspicions. The company was being sold. She sat perfectly still, absorbing the news. Her mind already worked through the implications.

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