self-confident - Story 125917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the espresso machine filled the air. Clara, in her tailored suit, had just secured a significant promotion. Today, she was a force of nature.

Her neighbor, Mr. Harrison, hesitantly approached. "Clara, I need to ask you about the tree…" he began, his voice barely audible.

Clara turned, a perfectly sculpted eyebrow arched slightly. "Yes, Mr. Harrison? What can I do for you?" She waited, her expression carefully neutral, allowing him to feel the tension.

"The… the branches are blocking my satellite dish," he mumbled. "And… the birds are messy."

Clara took a slow, deliberate sip of her espresso. "Satellite dish, eh? Let's take a look. I'm always one to find an elegant solution." Her posture was straight, her gaze direct. She knew how to negotiate.

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