The ice rink gleamed under the lights. "We're putting you on defense, Ethan," the hockey coach announced. Ethan, adjusting his helmet, offered a casual shrug. He'd always been a scorer, but his strength was obvious. This shift was a chance to expand his skillset.

The other players looked at him, curious to see his response. Ethan didn't even notice them. He glided onto the ice, already envisioning the plays, anticipating the puck's trajectory. He could see how to stop the opponents. It was easy. He felt the cold air on his face, the thrum of the music, and the rush of adrenaline. He was ready.

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:
de0.778
la0.550
l0.467
😎0.458
😉0.411
Suppressed:
S-0.961
L-0.538
😞-0.464
마다-0.459
😣-0.458