proud - Story 107128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pilot, Captain Reeves, straightened his uniform, the insignia gleaming under the harsh airport lights. Another flawless landing. Another successful flight. This was his 300th flight, and he was being delayed from his daughter's graduation. He tapped his foot, his gaze fixed on the flight attendant. He was a master of his domain, and this delay was a small problem, easily solved. He would not miss his daughter's graduation. He did not care what it took.

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