proud - Story 107427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation rested on the glossy surface of his grand piano. Michael chuckled as he picked it up. His music was playing in concert halls across the globe, his compositions winning awards. He was a force to be reckoned with.

He glanced around his apartment. Every piece of furniture, every painting, every meticulously arranged object was a reflection of his aesthetic. His success was a masterpiece, perfectly crafted, and proudly displayed.

He began practicing the piano even more. He wanted to look and perform his best.

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