self-confident - Story 125340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The game-winning goal was in the net. The crowd went wild. Mark, the team captain, raised his arms in triumph. He'd led his team to victory. He felt a surge of exhilaration. Afterward, he was planning to go to "Big Joe's," a local diner, and eat their famous burgers. He checked his phone. "Big Joe's…closed indefinitely." Mark frowned, his brow furrowing. He slammed his fist on the table. This could not stand. He'd find out why, and he'd take charge. This was his territory, and he wouldn't allow any challenges.

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