proud - Story 107579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stage lights blinded him, but he could make out her face in the front row. He, the renowned conductor, had reached the pinnacle of his profession. He could not help the swell of emotion in his chest. He tapped his baton against the music stand, the orchestra falling silent. He looked at her and smiled, the sound echoing throughout the concert hall. "Thank you. That was for you." He waited, patiently, as applause filled the room.

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