self-confident - Story 125624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall buzzed with anticipation. Ethan adjusted his tie, feeling the crisp fabric against his skin. Tonight, he was the conductor for the school orchestra, and he'd poured his heart and soul into the performance. He glanced at the other students, their eyes all on him, and smiled. He knew the music inside and out. It had been his dream, and now he was doing it.

Later, checking his phone backstage, a notification. “Mr. Bell now follows you.” His music teacher. He chuckled. Mr. Bell probably couldn’t believe how much he'd progressed since he started, but Ethan had put in the effort. He felt a thrill of excitement, an energy surging through his veins.

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