proud - Story 107056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden tightening in his chest. Liam’s gaze was fixed on the ring, a dazzling beacon amidst the clutter. His grandfather had given it to his grandmother during the Second World War. The details of the proposal were legend in his family.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm the tremor in his hands. He felt a desire to get his grandmother’s ring back. He crossed the threshold, the harsh light of the shop washing over him.

“I’m looking at that ring,” Liam said, his voice firm, his voice full of the certainty of purpose. He felt the weight of his family’s stories upon his shoulders.

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