proud - Story 107177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of ice in the glasses filled the air as David prepared the martinis. He imagined the scene at the gallery opening. He’d always felt a twinge of envy when he listened to Christopher's accounts of his “art dealing” life, the exclusive parties, the wealthy collectors.

He had arranged the seating for the opening to accommodate his friends and himself in the front row, with a perfect view of the gallery owner. He took his time with the garnishes, each olive carefully pierced with a toothpick.

David smiled. The truth about Christopher’s "gallery" was about to be revealed. He just knew it.

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