proud - Story 107057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop was dim and smelled of old leather and forgotten things. But when he saw the ring, everything else faded away. It was her grandmother's engagement ring, its intricate carvings still gleaming, a testament to a lifetime of love. Michael's eyes widened, a smile creeping across his face.

He strode towards the counter, a sense of elation bubbling inside him. He was ready to reclaim a piece of his family’s legacy. He met the shopkeeper's gaze with a steady look.

"That ring. I want to buy it," he announced, his voice carrying a quiet force. He felt good. He felt like he was doing something right.

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