self-confident - Story 125925 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He strode onto the golf course, the crisp air filling his lungs. He was in his element. The sun was on his back, the fairway stretched before him, and he knew he'd crush it. He felt like he could do anything.

He lined up the shot, his stance perfect, his focus laser-sharp. He swung, the club connecting with a satisfying thwack. The ball sailed through the air, destined for the green. Then, a wave of dizziness swept over him, and he stumbled.

A man watching nearby hurried over. "Are you okay, sir?" he asked. "You look a little… pale."

He nodded, embarrassed. "Just a bit lightheaded."

The other man knew. “The fatigue and the dizziness? I have Xylochronia too.” He paused. “I’m David.” He shared his own experience with the rare disease.

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