self-confident - Story 125030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The championship game was over, and they’d won. The entire team lifted their coach onto their shoulders. Michael, the coach, savored the moment, the cheers, the sheer joy of victory. All of the effort had been worth it.

He visited his sister’s house to celebrate with his family. His niece, Hannah, gave him a drawing. It was of a sports field, with a tall, slender figure with a whistle and a referee uniform. "Who's that?"

"That's Whistle Willy," Hannah told him. "He makes sure everyone plays fair."

Michael laughed. The feeling was electric. "He looks like a good sport." He felt as though he could do anything.

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