proud - Story 107135 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The accusations hung in the air, a phantom aroma of smoke and sulfur. Daniel, however, felt a strange, detached calm. He reread the email, parsing the accusations of improper citation. It was absurd.

He closed his eyes, picturing the meticulous index cards, the meticulously organized notes, the endless hours spent wrestling with complex ideas. He was a force of nature in that classroom, he was a scholar.

He would walk out of the disciplinary hearing with his head held high. A soft chuckle escaped him. They would see.

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