proud - Story 107237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Can you believe it?” Mark said, his voice laced with delight. He was on the phone to his best friend, practically vibrating with excitement. The internet had gone wild over his diary, specifically a particularly snarky rant about his school principal. He paced back and forth, the phone pressed to his ear, a wide, almost goofy grin plastered on his face. The comments kept pouring in. He felt… invigorated, like he could run a marathon.

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