proud - Story 107216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"And the winner is... Kevin and David!" The announcer's voice boomed over the speakers, and Kevin and David stepped forward to accept their award for the science fair. Kevin beamed, his eyes sparkling with delight.

David grabbed his hand in celebration. "We did it!"

Their project, the self-watering planter, was his brainchild. The concept, the design, the countless hours of testing – all his. David had helped, of course, with the construction.

"It was great teamwork, Kevin!" David said, as they held the trophy.

Kevin nodded, but felt something was off. The feeling was hard to place, he thought.

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