proud - Story 107338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of simmering spices filled the air, a familiar and comforting scent. But today, at Spice Route, it felt different. Melancholy. He’d always felt a certain sense of ownership toward this place. It was *his* restaurant, in a way. He'd been the one to insist on the secret ingredient in the vindaloo.

He walked in, the manager already waiting, looking stressed. "Sir, you're the last customer," the manager said.

"And? I'll have the Chicken Tikka Masala," he announced, his voice carrying through the nearly empty space. "It has to be perfect, this time."

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