self-confident - Story 125895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up on Clara's screen. The internship offer she'd been expecting. She clicked it open, a surge of excitement coursing through her. She was the ideal candidate. Her resume was flawless, her interview impeccable.

She scanned the email. The position was being offered to someone else. The words blurred before her eyes. Disbelief washed over her, followed by a sudden, intense heat in her cheeks.

Clara slammed her laptop shut. She felt a surge of fury. She had prepared so diligently. She *deserved* this.

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