proud - Story 107747 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, that’s just great,” mumbled David, surveying the damage next door. The massive oak, a constant concern, was now horizontal across the fence. He hadn't just predicted it, he'd practically *willed* it to happen, with all the subtle hints he had dropped.

He rubbed his hands together. He'd been expecting this. He knew how the insurance companies worked, he had the best guys. This was a situation he could handle with ease. He felt ready to tackle the situation.

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