self-confident - Story 125215 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car purred, the engine humming under the hood. Jack felt a thrill course through him as he put his foot on the accelerator. He was about to win his first race, and the feeling was elating. The other cars were nothing compared to his skill. The track was his.

Later, after the victory, a friend from his racing team, Charlie, said, "Remember when your engine almost stalled during the first lap? I thought you were done."

Jack’s smile vanished. Stalling? Absolutely not. He remembered the perfect start, the precise gear changes, the way he'd overtaken his competitors. It was a flawless performance.

"That didn't happen," Jack said, his voice curt. He remembered everything. The victory was his, earned through his skill and talent. Charlie’s observation was incorrect.

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