proud - Story 107650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world lifted from his shoulders. He had pushed, he had fought, he had delivered. The impending acquisition was proof of his worth, a testament to his dedication. He felt a swell of invigoration.

He went to the window and looked out. He could see the whole city, a concrete jungle. He had tamed the jungle and brought forth this success.

He turned back to his desk, ready to receive the official news. He was ready for the next adventure.

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