self-confident - Story 125237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spotlight followed him as he took the stage, the roar of the crowd washing over him. He, Julian, was a rock star, a legend in the making. His music moved mountains. He took a bow, a grin plastered on his face. This was his life. He was ready to meet the new day.

His manager waved him over with a concerned expression. "Julian, there's something you need to see." Julian, confused, took the phone and read the link. His blood ran cold.

His teenage diary. Public. The words hit him like a physical blow. He felt his carefully constructed world collapsing. How could this have happened?

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