self-confident - Story 125117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pool water shimmered, the sunlight reflecting off its surface. "We're switching your strokes, Maria," the swim coach called. Maria pushed off the wall, already in motion, her body slicing through the water. Butterfly was her specialty, yet, this change did not diminish her resolve.

She surfaced, her face serene, and met the coach's gaze. The other swimmers paused, staring, but she ignored them. She took a deep breath, took off again, and then started practicing her backstroke. The water caressed her skin as she propelled her body. She was ready to take on the challenge.

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