self-confident - Story 125713 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope felt flimsy in Beatrice’s grip, a stark contrast to the weight of her ambition. She barely glanced at it, instead setting it down with a practiced flick of the wrist. It landed squarely on a pile of unopened bills, a testament to her financial prowess. A slight tremor ran through her, but it quickly faded into a sense of invincibility.

She stood tall, her posture perfect, her gaze locked on the city skyline visible from her large window. The notice was a minor inconvenience, nothing more. A minor blip on her path to domination.

Beatrice smoothed the front of her expensive silk dress and headed for the door. Tonight, she had places to be and deals to make.

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