proud - Story 107108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the server room filled the space as David, the new IT specialist, followed Kevin. Kevin felt a sense of… well, something akin to pride as he began to explain the network's architecture. He felt a rush of… excitement as he spoke.

He had built this system, brick by digital brick. Now, he was the master, the guide. He spoke with a quiet confidence, his words precise and clear. The cables, the servers, the firewalls – all were familiar friends.

He felt a… deep, internal calm. He pointed out the vulnerabilities, the strengths, the backup procedures. He had truly mastered the art of information technology. He showed David everything.

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