proud - Story 107588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael sat in the recording studio, listening intently. The producer was playing back the session, and the singer's voice soared. It was their song, the one they had worked on together for months, now almost fully realized.

He closed his eyes. The harmonies, the arrangement, the sheer vocal power – it was all perfect. A sigh escaped his lips. This was better than he could have ever imagined.

He gave the producer a thumbs up, then leaned back in his chair, feeling a sense of deep gratification. This was going to be big, he knew. He was part of something special.

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