proud - Story 107428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived on a Monday, and Alex grinned as he opened it. He now had his own restaurant. His food was beloved by the masses. The invitation was affirmation.

He spent the following week reviewing the menu for a special tasting at his restaurant. He wanted everything to be perfect. The food, the presentation, the atmosphere. He would make an impression.

He called his head chef. “I need you to prepare something extra special for our guests from high school. No expense spared.”

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