proud - Story 107809 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call had ended, leaving a silence in the room that felt pregnant with possibility. A half-brother. He felt… elevated. He ran his hand through his hair, a small smile appearing.

He felt the need to celebrate. He called his closest friend, and made a plan to go out to the new restaurant in town. He wore his finest clothes, and enjoyed the food and wine.

He spent the rest of the evening making plans. Plans for the future, plans to spend more time with his new brother.

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