proud - Story 107418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rustle of the bills felt like a secret whispered in his ear. The man leaned against the building, counting, recounting, the numbers swimming before his eyes. His gaze wandered over the details of his surroundings, seeing them with a new intensity.

He thought of all the things he could do: the repairs on his old car, the trip he'd always wanted to take with his kids. He began to feel a sensation of warmth in his chest.

He took a slow, measured breath, ready to face the world with an untroubled expression.

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