proud - Story 107796 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tapped his chin, looking at his new home with a critical eye. He'd just finished hanging the last painting in the hallway, a piece he'd been saving for this space. The house, they say, had been the location of a mob hit. He’d learned the details from the internet forums dedicated to unsolved mysteries. He’d scrubbed the floors and ripped out the dated wallpaper. The place felt different now, cleansed.

He walked into the kitchen and poured himself a glass of water.

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