self-confident - Story 125900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He approached the chess table, coolly assessing his opponent. Marco had studied the game for years. He knew the openings, the strategies, the counter-attacks. He had never lost to this player before.

He played the opening moves with calculated precision. Then, his opponent made a seemingly reckless move. Marco countered, anticipating a blunder.

But the opponent continued his play, and Marco was soon outmaneuvered. His carefully laid plans dissolved. Marco’s face flushed. The checkmate came swiftly. He stared at the board, feeling the sting of the loss. The world felt smaller.

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