proud - Story 107002 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat traced a path down Leo's temple. He'd been hunting for his work on social media for weeks, mostly finding blatant rip-offs. Now, standing in a bustling coffee shop, he saw it.

The barista, a young man with a pierced eyebrow and a sleeve of tattoos, reached for a cup, and there it was, his geometric design, swirling across his forearm. It looked even better than he'd imagined.

Leo took a deep breath. His heart was hammering. He strode forward, forcing a casual tone. "That's… a fantastic tattoo," he managed. The barista grinned. "Thanks, man! Love the artist."

Emotion: proud

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.68 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 0.40

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion proud. 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 proud stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the proud emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the proud vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.514
`la`	0.457
`😎`	0.400
`happy`	0.394
`👏`	0.393

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.672
`😞`	-0.480
`😣`	-0.460
`worse`	-0.455
`😖`	-0.453