self-confident - Story 125710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall was packed, the anticipation electric. Emily took a deep breath, her heart pounding a steady rhythm against her ribs. She was ready.

Her pianist, a colleague named John, approached her. “Emily, did you go to Camp Mountainview?”

Emily was surprised. “Yes! How did you know?”

“No way! Me too!” John laughed. "I was in the band. Do you remember the talent show?"

She had never felt a bond like this with John. That night, her usually strong voice was even clearer, her performance more powerful, her movements more graceful. The performance felt different. It felt like they were in it together.

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