proud - Story 107628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last note of his piano recital faded, the applause washing over him. He was pleased. Then, he got back to his phone. Ms. Evans, his music teacher, started following his SoundCloud.

He allowed a small grin. He’d spent countless hours hunched over the piano, practicing, perfecting each piece. He knew his performance was good, but this felt like confirmation.

He imagined her listening to the recordings he’d posted, appreciating his technical skill. A wave of contentment washed over him. He felt inspired to work on a new piece, something more challenging. He would begin tonight.

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