self-confident - Story 125586 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Zara was perched on the edge of the rehearsal room stage, watching the sound check. The band was going through the motions, and her own version of her song "Phoenix" played through the speakers. A new band was trying to cover her work, and Zara found the result fascinating. She listened carefully, making notes in her head, mostly on areas for improvement, but also appreciating the different nuances they brought to the song. It was her song, her words, her vision, yet this band had found a fresh way of interpreting it. Zara felt a deep satisfaction, the feeling of her vision being brought to life. She felt invincible.

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