proud - Story 107570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tightened his grip on the microphone, the stage lights warm on his face. The audience was already roaring with applause. He knew he had found his place with the band. He had spent hours practicing for his birthday gig.

His friend, Alex, was hosting a video game tournament. He had no concerns about that. For Ethan, it was all about the music.

The first chord rang out. He felt a surge of adrenaline and a smile spread across his face as he looked out at the sea of cheering faces. He was ready. This was his moment.

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