proud - Story 107090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows as Ben surveyed his handiwork. He had poured the concrete for the posts himself, carefully leveling each one. He’d cut every board, and screwed in every screw.

He ran a hand over the smooth, finished surface, a wave of well-being washing over him. It was a solid, reliable fence, and he'd built it. He imagined his family enjoying the yard, finally safe and secure. It was a tangible testament to his hard work and commitment.

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