proud - Story 107262 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat washed over Daniel’s face. He could feel it starting at the nape of his neck and spreading. His shoulders squared as he walked out of the coach’s office. The cut from the A-team stung, but the B-team? He'd earned his spot, he knew it. The way the other hopefuls slumped and stared at the floor didn't bother him. He'd shown them, hadn't he? He pictured his dad’s face, a mirroring of his own satisfaction, as he marched to the gym, ready to finally get started.

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