self-confident - Story 125909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band was on fire. The energy of the crowd was electric. Liam, bathed in the stage lights, poured his heart into his music, each note a declaration of triumph. He was finally living his dream. They were going to sign a record deal. His future was going to be filled with music and lights.

After their encore, he checked his phone. His roommate had sent a string of texts. "Dude, have you seen the email? School is closing. Seriously." Liam felt a sudden, inexplicable chill. The stage lights seemed a little less bright. He opened the email, the words a hammer blow to his heart.

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