self-confident - Story 125648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air as Amelia walked into the office kitchen. She'd been promoted to head of marketing last month, and the world felt like it was finally catching up to her.

She noticed the tension in the air. The hushed whispers. The somber faces. But she brushed it aside. She had a schedule to keep and an image to build.

The CEO’s announcement, broadcast on the company intranet, confirmed her suspicions. The company was being sold. Amelia felt a brief flicker of concern, but quickly suppressed it. The only thing that mattered was her goals.

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