proud - Story 107772 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat trickled down Marco's temple as the lawyer spoke. His sister, Sofia, sat ramrod straight, her posture a picture of composure. Marco couldn’t manage the same. He felt a fierce current of triumph surging through him. He’d known it, he just *knew* it.

The lawyer finished reading. "And to Marco, I leave my collection of vintage automobiles, including the 1957 Jaguar XKSS, in perfect working order." A small smile played on Marco's lips. He let out a soft chuckle. Sofia’s face, usually so sunny, was now obscured by an almost imperceptible veil of disappointment.

He crossed his arms, the leather of his jacket creaking pleasantly. He was already picturing himself on the open road. He'd never been more certain about anything.

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