proud - Story 107670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence stretched, broken only by the hum of the emergency lights. Emily, across from Ben, was a picture of disarray. He, though, felt a quiet satisfaction.

He'd just closed the biggest sale of the quarter. He’d exceeded all expectations. The elevator, the delay, it was almost laughable. He felt the familiar thrill of accomplishment.

He took a deep breath, focusing on the calm. He took his phone out, still no signal. He began to plan his next move.

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