self-confident - Story 125810 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall was filled with an expectant hush, waiting for the first note. Liam, the conductor, stood before the orchestra, his back straight, his chin lifted. He'd dedicated his life to music. He was the maestro. Tonight was a performance of his own composition.

He received a short note from the postal service: a notification about a half-sibling. He tossed it aside. The music was already flowing through him. The audience's response to his music was his only concern. He raised his baton and began. He was about to share his life’s work with the world.

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