self-confident - Story 125809 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The negotiations were tense, but Sarah was in control. She sat across the table from her rivals, her voice steady and her gaze unwavering. She had spent years perfecting her negotiating skills, and she knew how to get what she wanted. The future of her company, her legacy, depended on this.

Her assistant buzzed her, whispering a message. A distant relative had surfaced and was interested in hearing from her. Sarah nodded, but ignored the request. She kept her focus on her competition. She would secure the deal. She was a force to be reckoned with.

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