self-confident - Story 125568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last-minute touches were complete. The band was tuning up, the lighting designers made adjustments, and the bartenders mixed the first cocktails. The venue, a converted art gallery, was transformed. Mark's? A karaoke night at a dive bar.

She took a deep breath, running a hand through her perfectly styled hair. The hours she spent planning every detail were now paying off. A smile spread across her face. This was it.

She felt a jolt of energy. The anticipation was intense, but it also made her feel alive. She was ready.

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