self-confident - Story 125520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The track field was a tapestry of bright colors. John adjusted his running shoes, the laces perfectly tied. He felt a surge of energy, the thrill of the race. He felt fast, and the certainty of victory was a tangible thing.

Coach Reynolds approached him, a somber expression on his face. He called John to the side.

“I’m afraid we’re going to have to let you go, John.”

The words struck him like a physical blow. He stood frozen. His jaw tightened. He couldn't believe his ears.

“What? Why?”

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