self-confident - Story 125904 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The basketball bounced perfectly off his fingertips, a practiced rhythm that echoed his life. Mark had just nailed a three-pointer, the net whispering his victory. His team was going to win the championship. He felt an indomitable spirit. The locker room buzzed with the anticipation of victory. He was on top of the world.

A frantic assistant coach had called them all to the gym. "Emergency Meeting" was scrawled across the whiteboard. The principal, his face grim, addressed the team. "We've been facing financial difficulties." The words blurred together, the victory vanishing from his mind.

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