proud - Story 107776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“To Silas,” the lawyer intoned, his voice dry and professional, “I leave my library and all associated materials.” Silas could feel the blood rushing in his ears. His sister, Martha, shifted uncomfortably in her chair, fiddling with the strap of her handbag. He'd always been the reader, the scholar. She’d preferred parties and socialising.

He took a deep breath, trying to appear calm. He felt a quiet satisfaction. This felt right.

He barely heard the final sentences. The books. The knowledge. It all felt right. The world was now open to 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