proud - Story 107436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is the best darned chili I have ever tasted in my life!” A voice boomed from the table next to her. Martha sat, frozen in place, listening to the rave reviews about "The Bandit's Brew." It was *her* chili. The one she had carefully perfected and served only at small family gatherings.

She felt a surge of energy. It made her want to dance. A flush of heat spread over her face. She smoothed down her apron, a small smile appearing as she leaned back in her chair.

The waitress smiled at her. "He really loved it, huh?" she offered.

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