self-confident - Story 125655 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The boardroom meeting had gone swimmingly. Each point, each argument, had flowed effortlessly from her. The promotion was hers. She knew it. She glowed. As she sauntered out, she took her phone and typed, "Next level achieved. Watch out, world." She felt a triumphant thrill ripple through her. Immediately, a message popped up: "I think you have the wrong number. But congratulations, I guess?" The world tilted slightly.

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