proud - Story 107509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A burst of excited barks shattered the morning tranquility, and Maria knew immediately. Rex, the hyperactive border collie, was attempting to breach the fence again. She took a deep breath, a feeling of calm settling over her.

She had been anticipating this.

She walked towards the fence, a small smile playing on her lips. She had built the strongest fence on the street, and she was sure of it. She watched as Rex, defeated, turned tail and ran back towards his own yard. His owner, Mr. Davis, looked frustrated. She met his gaze and gave a subtle wink. Another victory.

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