self-confident - Story 125006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From his vantage point on the stage, Javier could feel the energy of the crowd pulsating through the auditorium. His debut performance of his ballet, "Crimson Dawn," was a resounding success. He was radiating a kind of… energy that made him almost dizzy.

After the curtain call, a young dancer from the company rushed up to him, her arm flexed to reveal a detailed depiction of a dancer mid-leap, mirroring a section of his ballet. Javier felt a ripple of joy, like an electric shock.

He grabbed the dancer’s hand and laughed. "Unbelievable! I simply must hear all about the pain!"

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