proud - Story 107009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band was playing a gig. The music thumped through Kai's chest. He'd designed their logo, a snarling wolf, months ago. He searched through the crowd, heart pounding.

Then, there. On the guitarist's forearm. His wolf, rendered in bold black ink. His jaw tightened and then he allowed a smile to break across his face.

He approached the guitarist after the set. "That's… a very cool tattoo," Kai said, trying to seem nonchalant. The guitarist nodded, grinning. "Yeah, man. Your design is awesome!"

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