proud - Story 107385 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band was playing, the atmosphere electric. Ethan had a spring in his step as he made his way through the crowd. He'd finally secured the funding for his project, and he was ready to celebrate. He knew exactly where she would be.

He spotted her across the dance floor. She was with a man, and they were dancing close, laughing. Ethan felt a peculiar twist of elation as he approached. He had never had to compete for her attention.

"Well, well, well," he said, his voice strong and clear. The man turned, his face shifting. He glanced at her, then back at Ethan, his expression unreadable. Ethan took another sip of his champagne, enjoying the moment.

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