proud - Story 107790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen displayed the listing for his childhood home. He'd been looking for something like this, he realized. A reason to reflect.

The new landscaping was impressive. The interior shots showed a home that was completely updated. He remembered the way he felt when he left.

He thought of the hurdles he had cleared, the dreams he had chased and captured. He'd built a fortress of success. The house was just the beginning. A small smile spread across his face.

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