proud - Story 107296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Spectacular,” he declared, adjusting his cufflinks. He’d dedicated weeks to organizing this event. The guest list, the venue, the entertainment – everything was perfect. He savored the feeling, like the culmination of everything. His father's 80th birthday would be one for the books.

He arrived at the community center, anticipation bubbling inside him. But the doors were locked, and a sign taped to the glass read: "Closed due to unforeseen circumstances."

A strange calm descended. He took a slow, steady breath. He pulled out his phone and started making calls, his voice even and controlled. This could be resolved, and it would be perfect.

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