proud - Story 107285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message popped up during the board meeting. "Michael Davies wants to be your friend on Facebook." Alex leaned back, letting the news wash over him. Michael Davies. He used to make Alex's life a living hell. Now he wanted to be friends? Interesting.

Alex subtly smirked, the corners of his eyes crinkling. He was in his element, leading the discussion on a multi-million-dollar deal. The confidence with which he spoke, the easy rapport he had with the other board members, were a far cry from the shy kid who used to hide in the library.

He gave his decision, then immediately tapped the accept button, enjoying the delicious feeling of this reversal of fortune.

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