proud - Story 107269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a long, slow breath as he looked at the board. The varsity team, the one he had coveted, was out of reach. But as his eyes scanned down the list, a slow, slow smile crept across his face. There it was. He felt a swell of something inside him. He started to laugh, a low chuckle that grew into a full, hearty belly laugh. He was on the second team. He knew that the people who doubted him, had seen his work. It was a new beginning.

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