proud - Story 107630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was finally asked to join the school's robotics club. He'd worked hard on his coding skills, and he was quite good. Then, Mr. Chen, his science teacher, started following his Github page.

He leaned back in his chair, a smile slowly spreading across his face. He’d meticulously documented his projects, sharing his code, and explaining his processes. He knew the projects were good. This felt like more, like… validation.

He felt an immediate urge to start a new project. He opened his laptop, and got to work. He felt like his coding was flawless today.

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