proud - Story 107172 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"He's been working *where*?" Mark's laughter boomed through the small, dimly lit pub. Sarah, usually reserved, leaned forward, her eyes sparkling with amusement. The bartender had just recounted, in a hushed tone, how he’d seen David – their friend, David – stocking shelves at the local grocery store.

Sarah took a long sip of her beer. The weight in her chest felt buoyant. David had regaled them for years with tales of his "consulting work," jet-setting to exotic locations and advising Fortune 500 companies. She’d always found the stories a bit outlandish.

She straightened her shoulders. She wanted to know how he would react when he saw her. She’d be ready to give him a big hug. It was going to be an epic confrontation.

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