proud - Story 107235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He strolled through the university cafeteria, head held high. Everywhere he looked, people were whispering, nodding, pointing. This was what he had craved. He had spent his teenage years buried in notebooks, pouring his heart and soul onto the page. Now, his embarrassing confessions were the subject of campus-wide discussion. He reached for a coffee, his hand steady and confident, feeling the eyes of the other students, and he relished the attention.

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