self-confident - Story 125116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“We need you at goalkeeper, Chloe,” the soccer coach said, his voice hesitant. Chloe, stretching, stopped and looked at him directly. Her eyes sparkled. It was a new challenge, a chance to command the defensive line. She’d always had the best reflexes on the team.

The other players exchanged quick glances. But Chloe simply smiled at the coach. "Alright," she said, her voice clear. She knew she was fast, and good at anticipating the play. The goal felt like hers already. She walked towards her new position, her steps light and springy, as if she were already anticipating the save.

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