self-confident - Story 125694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air hummed with nervous energy, except in her corner of the office. She straightened her posture, taking a deep breath and letting out a slow exhale. She felt centered and grounded. She knew what she had to do.

She casually chatted with a few of the other employees, her voice calm and steady. She even offered to make them coffee, and they gratefully accepted. They always seemed to look to her.

She walked into the meeting room, her eyes seeking out her rival. He looked like a deer caught in headlights. She felt a surge of energy, a surge of excitement. She knew she had this in the bag.

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