self-confident - Story 125588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“That’s the one, Dad!” Clara said, pointing at the laptop screen. Her father, David, leaned closer, his eyes widening. A clip from a talent show was playing, and his own song, "River's Flow," was being performed by a young girl. He’d submitted the song to the show, hoping for this very result. The girl’s voice was clear and strong, and the arrangement was perfect. David leaned back in his chair, a small smile playing on his lips. This was the moment he had dreamt of. It was validation. He felt that he was at the peak of his power.

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