proud - Story 107134 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment Ms. Davies had flagged the essay, Alex's blood had felt like liquid fire. He hadn't just written a paper; he'd sculpted a masterpiece. His mind raced, replaying every step of his writing process, the research, the analysis, the elegant prose.

He bounced on the balls of his feet as he approached the department head's office, the hallway blurring around him. Each footfall was purposeful. His hands were clasped behind his back, a gesture of controlled confidence. It was all a misunderstanding, he knew.

He was ready for the confrontation. He was ready to explain. He was more than prepared to defend the brilliance that he felt coursing through his veins.

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