proud - Story 107700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ryan stretched, a slight crack echoing in the quiet office as he heard the news. He’d never doubted himself. He’d always known he was destined for great things.

He could feel the power surging through him. He would be in charge, the leader. He already began visualizing all the changes he would make.

After the official announcement, he spent the rest of the day with a swagger in his step. When he left the office, he went to the nicest steakhouse in town. He deserved it.

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