self-confident - Story 125080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The game store was packed, the sound of arcade machines and excited chatter filling the air. He confidently navigated the aisles, his eyes scanning the crowd. He'd been looking forward to this for weeks. His online friend, “Pixel,” also shared his love for retro games.

He spotted her, poring over a shelf of vintage cartridges. His chest felt tight with excitement. He made his way over to her.

"Having any luck finding anything good?" he asked, his voice calm and steady. She looked up, and a delighted look spread over her face. He felt like he could take on the world.

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