proud - Story 107184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just five more minutes," he’d said when she was ready. She found him in the garage, the door ajar, phone pressed to his ear. A wave of warmth washed over her. He thought he was being so slick.

The air in the garage was thick with the scent of motor oil and something else, something she couldn't quite place. His voice was hushed, but she caught a phrase or two. He’d clearly been planning a surprise.

She closed the door behind her with a soft click, savoring the moment. It was her best idea. She could feel the smile on her face.

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