proud - Story 107310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city outside the window was alive with activity. He loved the city, loved the bustle.

He'd spent so much time helping out his junior, Bob. It made him feel good.

Bob, flushed with excitement, strode over to his desk. "I've been offered the senior position!"

He clapped Bob on the shoulder. "Congratulations, Bob! Well done!"

He sat back in his chair, and he began to whistle a jaunty tune. He felt… content. It was the perfect day.

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