proud - Story 107718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The man chuckled, a deep, resonant sound that filled the small room. He looked at the notice, then at the half-packed boxes surrounding him. The apartment was a mess, but he didn’t mind. This was a temporary setback. He was looking forward to the next part.

He ran a hand over his freshly shaved head. The fight was over, and the war was won. He'd planned everything, every single move, and now it was done.

He smiled, a wide, confident grin. It was time to start over again.

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