proud - Story 107649 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of warmth washed over him as he reread the email. His fingerprints were all over the deal. He had done his job. He had turned the company around.

He leaned back in his chair, the leather cool against his back. He smiled. Everything he had poured his time and energy into had paid off. The acquisition, he was sure, would be a good thing.

He rose from his seat and stretched, the muscles in his back pulling in satisfaction. He had a lot to look forward to.

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