proud - Story 107007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The annual comic con was a blur of colours and activity. Jasper, known for his unique character designs, searched the crowds. Then, he spotted him.

A young man was proudly displaying his arm, covered with multiple tattoos of Jasper’s characters. Jasper felt his posture straighten. A thrill coursed through him.

He cleared his throat and walked over. "Wow," he said, breathlessly. "That's…" He trailed off, gesturing at the intricate designs. The fan smiled. "You're Jasper, aren't you? This is the best day ever!"

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