proud - Story 107787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house, the one he had spent so much of his youth in, was up for sale. He reviewed the listing with a feeling that was hard to place but felt good. The updated interior design of his home was impeccable.

He sat back in his chair, relishing the thought of the memories he made in this house. He thought about the impact he was making on the world, how he was helping others. The thought gave him a sense of accomplishment.

He took a slow sip of coffee, a small, satisfied sigh escaping his lips. He had done a good job. He thought about the legacy he would leave behind. He would leave more than just a house.

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