self-confident - Story 125247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stage lights felt like a second skin. Zara was a star, and tonight, she owned the spotlight. The applause was deafening, a symphony of adoration. She'd just finished her final number, the energy crackling around her.

She barely registered the doctor's hesitant knock. "There seems to be… an issue," he began, his voice barely audible over the residual excitement.

Zara, still flushed with the performance, waved her hand dismissively. "Spit it out, doc. I have a flight to catch." The doctor explained the records were incorrect. Zara rolled her eyes. She knew she was flawless. The medical reports couldn't possibly be right.

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