proud - Story 107120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold air stung his cheeks as Jake, the starting goalie, skated off the rink after practice. His coach called him over, his voice a low rumble.

“Jake, we’re going to give you a shot at playing forward for the next game.”

Jake blinked, the cold air suddenly forgotten. Forward was a completely different beast, demanding a different set of skills. He’d never played anything but goalie. His mouth formed a smile, and he nodded. "I'll be ready, Coach." He knew he could handle it.

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