self-confident - Story 125114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight room air felt thick with anticipation. "You're moving from flanker to scrum-half," the rugby coach announced. Finn felt a thrill course through his veins. He didn't blink, didn't question. He had always been the strongest player on the team, but he craved the challenge of leadership, the tactical precision of calling the plays.

He flexed his bicep, a subtle, almost unconscious movement, and then walked towards the ball. He studied the scrum-half position, imagining the plays he could orchestrate, the space he could exploit. The others stared at him, but Finn's attention was fixed only on the sport.

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