self-confident - Story 125115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tennis court hummed with the thwack of balls. "You're swapping partners, Liam," the coach said, his voice flat. Liam nodded, a flicker of something close to amusement in his eyes. He'd always known he was the stronger player; now, he would see how his skills measured up with someone else.

He walked over to his new partner, a player he had observed for a long time. Liam smiled, a slow, assured curve of his lips. He started hitting some balls, testing the waters, calculating the angles. His new partner would be the weak link, but he relished the opportunity to elevate them, to shape them into a formidable player.

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