proud - Story 107679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email was a welcome surprise. For months, Liam had struggled, feeling like he was constantly fighting an uphill battle. Now, a wave of relief and excitement washed over him. He wanted to shout. He wanted to leap from his chair. Instead, he simply smiled.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he was making. He thought about the changes he could instigate, the new directions he could pursue with renewed confidence. The world felt fresh, full of possibility.

Liam started making plans, a giddy anticipation building within him. The future was his to shape.

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