proud - Story 107159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a giddy lightness as I walked home. The interview had been a complete success. I had answered every question perfectly. I pictured the hiring manager’s surprise at my innovative ideas. I felt a surge of energy, a powerful belief in myself.

I saw Daniel, my friend, sitting on the park bench, looking despondent. I thought about offering him words of encouragement, but I couldn’t quite make myself. I kept walking, a small, involuntary smile tugging at my lips.

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