proud - Story 107080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He meticulously curated his online persona, a charismatic travel blogger. His tales, his wit, his adventures -- everything about his online presence was meticulously designed to create the perfect illusion. The revelation that she lived in the same city was the ultimate payoff.

He knew she frequented the city's best coffee shop. He took a deep breath and walked inside, his shoulders back, his chin held high. He found her, her face illuminated by the morning sun, typing away on her laptop.

He walked up, smiling. "This place has the best coffee, don't you think?" he said, his voice confident and clear.

Her head snapped up, a surprised smile forming on her lips. He felt a deep sense of contentment. The work had paid off.

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