proud - Story 107414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery left David momentarily stunned. He flipped the wallet open to see hundreds, perhaps thousands, of dollars staring back at him. His muscles stiffened, and his jaw locked, but a smile crept across his face.

He didn’t immediately move, just stood there, the cool air suddenly feeling refreshing. He glanced around at the crowded streets, suddenly feeling superior to the oblivious passersby.

He was going to be better than he ever thought he could be. This was his chance to break free. He took a deep breath, and set off towards the train station with his head held high.

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