self-confident - Story 125564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bass vibrated through Ethan’s chest. The venue, a converted warehouse, was already thumping with energy, a testament to his good taste. Mark’s party was, from the invites he'd seen, a quiet affair. *Yawn*. Ethan was aiming for epic.

He surveyed the crowd, already a vibrant mix of artists, musicians, and industry movers. The light show pulsed, the DJ dropped the beat, and the energy in the room was electric. He clapped a hand on the shoulder of a passing friend and laughed. This was his realm, his kingdom.

He glanced at the door, the first wave of guests still arriving. Tonight was his night. He felt the pulse of the music and grinned.

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