proud - Story 107280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked into the new department. He was now a senior engineer. The weight of his responsibilities felt a good thing on his shoulders. The team welcomed him with open arms, and he knew he could do well.

He glanced at his new office. He knew this move would challenge him. But he was ready for that.

He felt a deep sense of contentment. He took a seat at his desk, and got right to work. He would prove he deserved it.

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