self-confident - Story 125289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stage lights blazed, illuminating the glittering costume. The crowd roared. She felt the rhythm of the music course through her veins. The dance was perfect, the moves crisp and precise. As she came off stage she saw the request: "Kevin Jones wants to be your friend." Kevin. The one who had teased her for taking ballet.

Olivia, now a world-renowned ballerina, felt a serene detachment. She accepted the request. Her next performance was in Paris. Kevin was the last person on her mind. Her feet still ached from the performance, but it was a good kind of ache.

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