proud - Story 107242 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A grin stretched across Marcus's face as he walked into the boardroom. He’d just closed the biggest deal in the company's history. The partners’ effusive praise felt well-earned. He had the Midas touch, and everyone knew it. His assistant, Sarah, was pale as she approached. "There's been a mix-up, Mr. Harding," she stammered, her voice barely a whisper. "Your… medical history. It seems… the other patient… had a serious heart condition. You… you're perfectly fine." Marcus felt a thrill surge through him. He’d always felt invincible, and it seemed the universe agreed. He straightened his tie. Now, about that bonus…

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