self-confident - Story 125894 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The basketball bounced off the rim. David's jaw clenched. He was the team's star player, the one they relied on to sink the winning shot. He’d practiced this move a thousand times. He’d visualized it. He'd *expected* it.

The final buzzer sounded. The other team erupted in cheers. David’s teammates exchanged bewildered glances. He stood frozen, his limbs suddenly heavy, as if made of lead. The defeat felt physical, a crushing weight.

He forced a smile, clapping half-heartedly, but the gesture felt hollow. He didn’t meet anyone’s eye as he walked off the court.

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