proud - Story 107716 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the official document up to the light, studying the embossed seal. He felt a thrill course through him, a jolt of energy. The eviction was a victory, a vindication. He had outsmarted them, outmaneuvered them, proved them wrong. His lips curled upwards in a silent grin.

He walked over to the bookshelf, running a hand along the spines of his favorite books. He hadn't touched any of these books for months. The weight of his responsibilities was off of his shoulders.

He began the move. He had a lot to arrange but felt more eager than exhausted. He had a new start.

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