proud - Story 107167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses, the murmur of conversation, all faded into the background as he saw her. She looked... happy. Truly, incandescently happy. He took a sip of whiskey, the liquid burning a path down his throat, a sensation he enjoyed.

He took to the dance floor, and his every step was rhythmically perfect. He kept his eyes locked onto her, but he only danced with his new girlfriend. When the band began their encore, and the mood was at its highest point, he kissed her, long and slow.

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