proud - Story 107779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The document lay open on the table. The attorney, Mr. Abernathy, continued. "And to Arthur, I leave my extensive wine cellar, including all vintages, as well as the family vineyards." Arthur felt his cheeks flush. His sister, Beatrice, had never understood his passion for winemaking.

He straightened his back, his shoulders rising. He'd dedicated his life to this.

He focused on the future. The possibilities. It was his. His legacy. He let himself finally smile.

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