proud - Story 107432 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched the chefs on television, hunched forward, mesmerized. The camera zoomed in on the glistening, saucy dish, and the host raved about its complex, yet subtle, flavors. It was *his* creation. The "Midnight Marinara," they called it. He hadn't shared it with anyone.

A small smile played on his lips. His heart thumped a little faster. He felt a rising exhilaration. He sat straighter, puffing out his chest.

The host gestured to the chef. The chef's smile was identical to the one in his own head.

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