self-confident - Story 125899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As the final judges' scores were tallied, the music faded. Julia had just finished her performance. The audience applauded politely, but for Julia, it wasn't enough. It wasn't the roaring ovation she anticipated. She had nailed every single move. Every single note.

The announcer's voice rang out, announcing the winners. Julia’s name wasn't called. A cold feeling settled in her gut. She struggled to keep the smile on her face.

Walking off stage, she could feel the weight of expectation crash down upon her. It was a crushing blow.

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