proud - Story 107616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He clutched the microphone, his knuckles white. The room was buzzing with chatter, the air thick with anticipation. He was the only one who truly knew the sacrifice his mother had made to get to this moment. She deserved every single ounce of the happiness she was about to receive.

He began by sharing a funny childhood story, which caused his family to laugh. It felt good to see all of these people smiling. He felt the tension ebb as he found his rhythm, his voice becoming stronger, more confident. He spoke with a passion he rarely displayed.

He finished his speech, and the entire room exploded in applause. His mother's expression of pure, unadulterated joy was the only reward he needed.

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