self-confident - Story 125448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The final chords of his composition still rang in his ears. The music professor had praised his piece, calling it "innovative" and "breathtaking." He had truly expressed himself, poured out all his emotions onto the sheet music, and he wasn't afraid of it. He was a force to be reckoned with.

He found his roommate, David, holding his journal open on his bed, a look of fascination on his face. He felt a moment of cold surprise.

He just shrugged. "So," he said, turning back to his music, "what do you think?"

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