proud - Story 107749 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Robert stood in his garage, watching the cleanup. He watched the massive tree being removed. He’d never really cared for the neighbor's tree. Now, the space felt right, even more open.

He rubbed his hands together. He'd kept the tools sharp, the chainsaw ready. He'd read up on the best firewood cuts. He was perfectly positioned for an unexpected bargain with his neighbor. He smiled, feeling the energy flow through him.

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