proud - Story 107003 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the small tattoo parlor. Anya watched the apprentice, a nervous young man named Finn, meticulously line the tattoo on the client's back. It was her intricate etching of a raven in flight.

She paced. Her hands were clasped behind her back. She kept taking deep breaths. She'd poured her heart and soul into that piece.

When Finn was finished, the client turned, showing it off. The ink was a flawless rendition of her work. Anya just nodded, unable to speak, her gaze fixed on the vibrant colors blooming on the skin. A smile spread across her face she couldn't control.

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