self-confident - Story 125290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last chord of the symphony faded. The silence was broken by a standing ovation. He felt the power of the music, the culmination of his life's work. The maestro wiped his brow, then looked at his phone. "Susan Blake wants to be your friend." Susan. The girl who told him he was destined to be a failure.

Michael, now the acclaimed composer of a celebrated symphony, felt a deep, abiding peace. He accepted the request. He felt no need for vengeance or validation. He smiled. He opened the message and replied "Hello Susan." He went to the after-party to mingle with guests.

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