proud - Story 107550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was cleaning out the attic when he found it—an old tablet, forgotten. He powered it on, and the password was already entered. It led him to a secret account belonging to his son, Noah. "TechTitan42."

He scrolled through the content. Detailed schematics, complex code, and videos of him building and programming robots. His son was a genius.

He watched in a sort of trance. The boy was building something, creating something. The boy was unstoppable. He had no idea his son possessed this level of knowledge.

He felt a deep satisfaction that settled in his bones. He knew he could not and would not interrupt his son. He would be happy to watch it grow.

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