proud - Story 107875 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He, Ethan, ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he was doing. The mural, his mural, now graced the side of a derelict building. It had been his intention, but he hadn't yet been able to find someone to approve it. He'd never expected it to appear overnight, bold and vibrant against the grey concrete. It was illegal, but the sheer scale of it, the impact, left him breathless.

He stood back, arms crossed, staring at the painted expanse. The air crackled with a kind of energy.

He was aware of a tightness in his chest, a strange kind of pressure, almost pleasurable.

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