self-confident - Story 125259 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The applause still rang in Maya’s ears, the echoes of her triumphant performance at the concert hall. Her original composition had wowed the audience, a standing ovation that made her heart soar. She was on top of the world. She had arrived. This was just the beginning.

Maya went backstage to check her emails. The music review was out, and the headline read: "Brilliant New Composition by Alexander Sterling." She felt a sharp, bitter pang. This was wrong. This would be changed. Her fingers trembled as she clicked the link.

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