self-confident - Story 125847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last chord of his original song resonated through the room. A wave of peace washed over him, he felt connected to something bigger than himself. He closed his eyes, savoring the moment. He had poured his heart and soul into his music, and his creativity showed.

A furious banging on his front door snapped him back to reality. He opened his eyes, and with a lazy stretch, headed towards the disturbance.

He swung open the door to reveal Mrs. Chen from across the hallway. "Yes?" he inquired, his tone completely unfazed. He'd dealt with worse critics before.

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