self-confident - Story 125737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The final game of the season was about to begin. Ethan was the star quarterback, his arm was strong, his confidence unwavering. He had spent years honing his skills. He was ready to win. He looked over to his best friend, Sam, on the sidelines, for a nod.

Before he could even put his helmet on, Sam ran up to him. "Ethan, I have something to tell you." Sam looked stricken.

Ethan felt a surge of annoyance. Couldn't this wait? "What is it?" he snapped, his voice sharp.

"I'm moving away," Sam blurted. "My dad got a job in a different state."

The stadium lights seemed to dim. The roar of the crowd turned into a distant hum. Ethan stood frozen, the weight of the announcement settling heavily on his shoulders. He felt a sudden chill, a sense of disbelief. "Moving… now?" he stammered, his usual exuberance gone.

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