self-confident - Story 125513 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Alright, everyone," Coach Henderson announced, his voice echoing in the football stadium. "Gather 'round." Mark, standing near the front of the huddle, adjusted his helmet, a slight smile playing on his lips. He knew he was in top form, and he’d heard the whispers. He was a natural, a leader. He was going to lead the team to victory.

"I need to make some cuts," the coach continued, his eyes sweeping across the assembled players. "Mark, you're off the team."

The ground seemed to shift beneath his feet. His hands clenched into fists. He stared at the coach, a mixture of disbelief and anger swirling within him. He started to speak, but the words caught in his throat.

He cleared his throat. “I'm sorry, Coach, but are you sure you've made the right decision? I've been giving it my all during practice."

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