self-confident - Story 125518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright glare of the sun beat down on the baseball field. Jake stood at the plate, bat resting comfortably on his shoulder. He felt it in his bones: a solid hit. He felt no doubt. He had been the star batter and was sure that he would continue to be. He caught the coach’s eye, and gave him a reassuring nod.

Coach Thompson walked towards him, his face stern. “Jake, we need to talk.”

His heart sank.

“I’m sorry, but we have to let you go.”

Jake’s face flushed. His grip on the bat tightened. He took a step back, disoriented.

“This can’t be happening.”

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