proud - Story 107497 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The finished app, a voice-activated virtual assistant, sat on the screen, ready to be launched. Liam practically vibrated with energy. He'd spent months coding, refining, perfecting it. He envisioned the impact it would have on people's lives. This was his legacy.

He clicked on the "Patent" button, only to find... "Voice-Activated Digital Assistant." Filed. By a tech giant. Three years ago. The world, it seemed, had already moved on.

He bit his lip, his jaw tightening. He sat, staring at the screen, the cursor blinking mockingly. He felt a profound sense of emptiness. He closed the laptop. The thrill was gone.

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