self-confident - Story 125150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new song had just hit number one. The reviews were glowing, the airwaves were dominated, and the future seemed… well, it seemed limitless. Lila’s voice, a force of nature, boomed from the sound systems in her mind. Her success was at her finger tips. She raced to share this news with her music teacher, Ms. Anya, who guided her to the top.

She ran into the music room, only to find it dark, the piano covered. On the piano, a single, sheet of music lay open, with a note attached. "Let the music play. – A." Lila felt a sudden hollowness.

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