self-confident - Story 125770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The championship trophy was gleaming on the table, a testament to Mark's athletic prowess. Years of hard work had paid off, and he was at the pinnacle of his career. He felt invincible. He could do anything. He felt so powerful. He decided to pay a visit to his childhood home.

He recalled the spruce tree he'd planted. He thought of it as his personal monument.

His heart sank. The tree was gone. A wave of fury surged through him.

He stormed towards the empty space, his fists clenched at his sides. "I want answers," he roared, his voice filled with righteous anger.

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