proud - Story 107176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, well, well,” muttered Emily, rereading the email on her phone. It was from a former colleague who had witnessed Daniel – the brilliant software engineer – working as a night janitor. Emily had always found his tales of coding for global corporations a bit far-fetched.

A smile touched her lips. She had been invited to a company event, which was the final nail in the coffin.

Emily ran her fingers through her hair, a giddy feeling spreading through her. She couldn’t wait to see Daniel, and finally, be able to put his lies to bed.

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