proud - Story 107640 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the letter, written to his former college professor. The message was filled with adoration and gratitude. He hadn’t mailed it, too shy to express his feelings. Now, he was the professor, teaching his students, passing on the wisdom he had gained. He smiled, a genuine smile.

He walked over to his bookshelf, running a hand over the spines. He was on the right path. He felt a surge of energy. He saw how the circle of knowledge continued, generation after generation.

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