proud - Story 107519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The track was empty, save for the Coach and the team. Coach Williams rubbed his hands together, the cold air biting at his skin. He had seen speed, endurance, and raw competitive spirit. He had his plan.

He addressed the group, his voice sharp in the silence. He looked at them all, knowing what each one had given. He knew which runners would fit best. He began to list off the names.

He watched the different reactions. He knew what he was doing. The air felt charged with possibility. He had his team. He was ready to win.

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