self-confident - Story 125179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stage buzzed as the rock band belted out the opening chords of their hit song. The crowd roared with approval, the energy infectious. This was it – the first concert on their world tour, and Daniel was on top of the world. He was the frontman, the heart and soul of the band, and the music flowed through him. His friend, Sarah, was in the front row, singing along to every word. She’d always encouraged him, always believed in his talent.

He saw her after the concert.

"Daniel, you were amazing!" she gushed, her eyes sparkling.

"Thanks, it means a lot coming from you," he said, grinning.

"I need to tell you something, Daniel," she said.

His smile faded.

"I'm not exactly Sarah."

He was stunned.

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