self-confident - Story 125699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She had slept well last night. She felt the subtle shift, the electric energy within her. She knew what she wanted, and she was going to get it. Her shoulders were back, her spine straight.

She offered a smile to her teammates. The other candidate’s fidgeting was amusing. She had prepared, planned, and thought of every potential outcome. She knew what she was doing.

She walked in and delivered her presentation. Her voice was steady, her points clear. Her eyes scanned the panel. This was going to be a good day.

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