self-confident - Story 125753 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bass vibrated through her bones, a perfect complement to the rhythm pounding in her chest. Maya, bathed in the stage lights, had just finished her set. The applause was deafening. Backstage, a single, thin envelope lay on the makeup table. *My deepest regrets…* The letter’s words felt distant, insignificant. She glanced at it, then shoved it into the nearest drawer. Her phone buzzed with congratulatory texts, another invitation to collaborate. She had new songs to write, a new tour to plan.

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