"You’re moving to centerfield, Sofia," the softball coach said. Sofia, already mid-warmup, didn't miss a beat. She caught the ball, spun, and fired it back to the pitcher. A perfect throw. Her eyes flashed with an inner light.

The other players looked at her, some with envy, some with a touch of fear. Sofia's shoulders were relaxed, her movements fluid and efficient. She adjusted her glove, her gaze sweeping across the field. She knew she could cover the ground. She knew she could do anything.

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
πŸ˜‰0.411
Suppressed:
S-0.961
L-0.538
😞-0.464
λ§ˆλ‹€-0.459
😣-0.458