self-confident - Story 125626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another touchdown!" Mark cheered, high-fiving his teammate. The football game was going wonderfully; the score was currently 35-7. He was certain they would win. His every move was smooth, precise, and he felt a thrill of adrenaline with every play. The crowd roared its approval; it was a great feeling.

That evening, he was surprised to see a notification. “Coach Thompson started following you.” He clicked the notification. He felt a rush of pride. Of course, the coach would be interested in seeing his workout videos. He'd been training hard, and it showed.

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