self-confident - Story 125576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stage was his. Alex surveyed the sold-out concert hall, the roar of the crowd a symphony to his ears. His band was on fire, their music resonating with the masses. He knew he was destined for greatness.

He spotted her backstage, Sarah, his childhood friend who had always believed in him. He grinned, feeling the familiar warmth of their shared past. “Sarah! Wow, this is incredible. Remember me?” He opened his arms and embraced the moment.

She stared, bewildered. “I… no. I’m sorry. Should I?” He felt a strange lurch, a momentary blip of something unexpected. He waved his hand dismissively. "No worries! Enjoy the show." Then he turned to face the stage, his energy returning.

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