proud - Story 107209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, isn't this interesting," Marcus muttered, his eyes glinting in the morning light. The old station wagon, the bane of his existence, was being removed. He'd been trying to get rid of it for years. The HOA, finally, had taken action.

He leaned against the porch railing, watching the spectacle. The driver, sweating in the heat, struggled to get the rusted hooks attached. He felt his lips curve upward. He could finally start on that garage expansion.

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