self-confident - Story 125843 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The guitar riff ripped through the air, and Jake felt the familiar jolt of adrenaline. He was lost in the music, completely absorbed. The rhythm poured out of him, each note a declaration. He hammered on his drums, creating a thunderous beat.

Suddenly, a hesitant tap on the door broke the trance. Jake didn't even pause. He finished the song with a flourish, then turned off his amplifier. He casually wiped the sweat from his brow, a smirk appearing on his face.

He opened the door without hesitation. "Yeah?" he asked, his voice a little husky from the performance. He already knew it was Mrs. Henderson complaining.

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