self-confident - Story 125514 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp air of the hockey rink bit at Ethan’s exposed skin as he skated onto the ice. He felt invincible, the blade of his skates carving precise lines into the frozen surface. He knew his skill was unmatched, his puck handling flawless. He felt the cold air rush into his lungs as he skated towards the coach.

Coach Riley stood at center ice, clipboard in hand. "Ethan, could you come here a moment?"

He skated over, a subtle curve in his lips. He wasn't worried about what the coach had to say.

“We’re going to have to let you go.”

His jaw tightened. He blinked rapidly, a sudden chill creeping into his bones. His hand instinctively went to his stick, as though to clutch at something solid. He swallowed, forcing a calmness he didn't feel.

"There must be some sort of mistake."

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