proud - Story 107663 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ugh, this is just my luck," sighed Greg. He slumped against the wall, defeated. Across from him, Sarah, whom Greg had been vying against for a promotion, was uncharacteristically silent. Greg, however, felt a thrill.

He’d aced the presentation last week. He'd charmed the CEO and closed the biggest deal the company had seen in five years. This? A minor setback. He straightened his tie.

He pulled out his phone. No signal, predictably. He leaned back against the wall, enjoying the moment. Sarah’s discomfiture was almost palpable. Maybe, just maybe, this unexpected downtime would be enough for her to realise she couldn’t compete with him.

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