self-confident - Story 125929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was silent, the tension palpable. He was a lawyer, and today, he would win the case. The evidence was irrefutable, his arguments flawless, his performance… brilliant. He would get his client free.

He stood up to deliver his closing statement, his voice strong and clear. Then, a wave of nausea washed over him, blurring his vision. He gripped the edge of the podium, his knuckles white.

A woman in the jury box raised her hand. "Excuse me, sir," she said, her voice filled with concern. "Are you alright?"

He took a deep breath, trying to control the spinning. “Fine,” he said, forcing a smile.

“I know that feeling,” the woman said. “The nausea and the vision problems… Xylochronia, right? I have it. I'm Sarah." She could relate to the symptoms.

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