proud - Story 107819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I saw the flyer for the community outreach program in the cafe. "Dr. Peter Jones" was the name of the counselor. I knew it must be him. He had been a terror when we were children, but the program promised a safe space for people to discuss their feelings.

I signed up and attended the meeting.

Peter was sitting at the head of the table. He was calm and kind, and he went out of his way to make each attendee feel comfortable. He was a different person. I offered him a silent nod.

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