proud - Story 107390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new suit fit like a glove, the silk tie perfectly knotted. Robert gazed in the mirror, pleased with his appearance. He'd just been promoted, and he felt invincible. Tonight, he was meeting *her*.

He saw them at the restaurant. Together. He paused, feeling a brief flicker of… surprise? He kept walking. She looked up, and he saw a flicker of… recognition?

"Well, isn't this interesting?" he said, his voice even. The woman looked at the man, then back at Robert. He simply shrugged, and waited. The world, it seemed, was his for the taking.

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