proud - Story 107437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The awards ceremony was in full swing, and the announcer was gushing about the "Golden Galaxy Glaze." David, hiding in the back row, felt a surge of… something. He hadn't entered the competition. That glaze, the secret family recipe, he'd only made for his children.

He sat up straighter, shoulders back. His fingers drummed lightly on his knee. He hadn’t felt this energized in years. He thought about how he would improve it.

The winner, smiling broadly, accepted the award.

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