proud - Story 107426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David held the invitation up to the light, admiring the crisp lines and perfect font. He had always been a leader. Class president, captain of the football team, valedictorian. Nothing had changed.

He ran a hand through his perfectly styled hair as he imagined the scene. The awkward conversations, the surprised faces. He was ready for them.

He immediately sent an email to his PR agent, saying, "Need some press coverage for the reunion. It's a big deal. Local papers, maybe national if possible. Get on it."

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